Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
For the believing Christian, death is no big deal….For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence. What a horrible act!
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
The memory of a good deed lives.
Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.
In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.
Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.
Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.
Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.
Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
