Morality Quotes

I swear to use my scientific knowledge for the good of Humanity. I promise never to harm any person ...

There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort...

Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion str...

Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God

...we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and ...

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

From faith,’ replied Emral Lanear, ‘do we not seek guidance?’ ‘Guidance, or the organized assembly a...

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

Religious people today, compartmentalize their attitude to the Bible. They pay it lip service as a s...

Institutionalized torture in Christendom was not just an unthinking habit; it had a moral rationale....

The universality of reason is a momentous realization, because it defines a place for morality. If I...

If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rathe...

Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master u...

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt...

But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious pro...

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

The questions of God – meaning in Milton’s phrase “The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” ...

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior whereve...

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, ...

What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concer...

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to...

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I ...

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to...

What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? "Evil starts when you begin to treat people as thi...

There was a wicked ole witch once called Black Aliss. She was an unholy terror. There's never been o...

What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not accord...

The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.

There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could s...

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every...

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. When each individu...

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ...

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and moral...

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good fait...

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas...

I was entering into a moral universe in which I would be related to every other rational being, and ...

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than b...

If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person ca...

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness ...

The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not...

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise conc...

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the de...

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars ...

I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who know...

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to ...

An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of stan...

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do a...

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a via...

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; ...

The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore th...

Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, ...

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually...

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we ...

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because...

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them,...

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, inte...

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and a...

In the early stages the sexual needs will have the upper hand, in later stages the compulsive morali...

The existence of strict moral principles has invariablysignified that the biological, and specifical...

And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like...

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but bel...

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to...

A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the sc...

Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not ex...

Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, ...

First, if you are a homosexual or feel that inclination, keep yourself pure. If you are unmarried, y...

The most popular form of atheism is a philosophy called naturalism. Naturalism is the view that scie...

To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of...

In addition to these physical problems, sexually transmitted diseases are rampant among the homosexu...

To say that the holocaust was objectively wrong, is to say that the holocaust was wrong even though ...

So how do you find out what God thinks? The Christian says, you look in the Bible. And the Bible tel...

So, once more, the question is: Does the Bible forbid homosexual behavior? Well, I’ve already said t...

Something is objective if it is independent of people’s opinions. If it holds or is true independent...

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice c...

But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.Scruples are alien to the black panther.Piranhas do no...

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of e...

...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable...

Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle...

Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book “Moral Mazes” by Robert Jackall which is a ...