Quotes About Morality

Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them, and feel justified in lying to them.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use god as an excuse for their cruelty.

Change is scientific, 'progress' is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

A política é em grande parte dominada por estribilhos moralistas desprovidos de qualquer verdade.

If you wish a man to commit some abominable crime, from which he would naturally recoil in horror, you first teach him loyalty to a gang of arch-criminals, and then make his crime appear to him as exemplifying the virtue of loyalty.

It seems that sin is geographical.

Morala curent? este un amestec bizar de utilitarism È™i superstiÈ›ie, unde îns?, cum e È™i firesc, precump?neÈ™te componenta superstiÈ›ioas?, de vreme ce superstiÈ›ia se afl? la obârÈ™ia regulilor morale.

as Shakespeare says: "What's to come is still unsure." Even the shrewdest men are apt to be wildly astray if they prophecy so much as 10 years ahead. Some people will consider this doctrine immoral, but after all it is the Gospel which says "take no thought for the morrow.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: Oh, but you forget the good God. Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes.

That is why the individual man is the bearer of good and evil, and not, on the one hand, any separate part of a man, or on the other hand, any collection of men. To believe that there can be good and evil in a collection of human beings, over and above the good or evil in the various individuals, is an error; moreover, it is an error which leads straight to totalitarianism, and is therefore dangerous.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery

Sacrifice is a necessary response to evil. You can only shame evil by showing them honor.

What should we say then? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may multiply? Romans 6:1

Rid yourselves of all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander. 1 Peter 2:1

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but faithful people are His delight. Proverbs 12:22

We are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything. Hebrews 13:18

When you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. Romans 2:1

There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. Proverbs 30:11

We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2

You don't have to take an ethics course. You don't have to know God well to know that, if he is righteous at all, some things are wrong. If he is good at all, some things are evil. If God is love, then nothing is more blasphemous than hate.

Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it? Luke 6:9

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth who does good and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20