Boyd K. Packer Quotes

You can't slice up morals.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We are in the position of a man with an elaborate camping kit who finds himself lost in the woods without his matches; to kindle a fire he has to resort to the stratagems of the caveman. We fall back through generations into the oldest terrors and confusions of the race.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.