Quotes About Morality

In fact, it is not justice which has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence of the other.

You say, "Here are men who are wanting in morality or religion," and you apply to the law; but law is force, and need I say how far it is a violent and absurd enterprise to introduce force in these matters?

If you suggest a doubt as to the morality of these institutions, it is said directly—"You are a dangerous innovator, a utopian, a theorist, a despiser of the laws; you would shake the basis upon which society rests." If

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

2. As soon as you become too interested in worldly pleasure and ease, your conscience objects. You are your own worst enemy when you act against your conscience. The wrong which you do becomes worse when you try to excuse yourself or justify your actions. 3.

L'injonction capitaliste (tout ce qui est agréable est obligatoire) est aussi stupide que la culpabilité chrétienne (tout ce qui est agréable est interdit).

Las personas movidas por las mejores intenciones siempre son las que acaban convirtiéndose en monstruos.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy

On atteint aisément une âme vivante à travers les crimes, les vices les plus tristes, mais la vulgarité est infranchissable.

François Goyot de Pitavals

Because there are times when getting up to mischief isn't mischievous and other times when it is and you shouldn't do it.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Realism provides only amoral observation, while Absurdism rejects even the possibility of debate.

He and his fellow pastors attacked the public schools for teaching "immorality" and "secular humanism." But what bothered pious members of his congregation was not just that the public schools taught wrong answers; it was that they did not protect children from information that might call their beliefs into question.

I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." —ROMAN DE RENARD

You will find out who you are when your choices test you. In the end, we are what we do and what we allow to be done.

I find it hard to believe that a lady like...' Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. 'There is something elevated in the female spirit that will always hold a woman back from the coldest and most vicious forms of villainy.' 'No, there isn't,' Miss Kitely said kindly but firmly, as she set a dish in his hand. 'Drink your chocolate, Mr Pertellis.

I'm glad we're free, even if we do stupid things with the freedom sometimes. Maybe sometimes there isn't a right thing to do. Maybe there's just lots of wrong answers, and you have to pick one you can bear – something that doesn't break who you are.

It would probably be better to have a ruler who didn't sell people or bend his own laws. For the moment, however, this man was perhaps just the best of the wrong answers available.

In the interests of Truth, I would lie.

The Bible says we should know a tree by the fruit it bears," Makepeace replied, a little sharply. "If you burn my hand off, what should I think of you?