Quotes About Morality

Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues — righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.

A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in.

If there were angels, would they be the good guys or the bad?" Lindsay

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants, or Republicans and Democrats, or white men and black men, or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't; and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.

It was a face that needed soap and water and Christian tolerance.

I said maybe if you loved a woman it wouldn't seem so boring, but Eric said it would be spoiled by thinking this woman too was just an animal like the rest, so if he loved anybody he would never go to bed with her. He'd go to a whore if he had to and keep the woman he loved free from all the dirty business.

Cuando yo tenía 19 años la pureza era un gran tema. El mundo estaba dividido entre católicos y protestantes, o entre republicanos o demócratas o entre blancos y negros, o aun entre hombres y mujeres, yo lo veía dividido entre la gente que se había acostado con alguien y la gente que no lo había hecho, y ésta parecía ser la única diferencia verdaderamente significativa entre una persona y otra

To be holy is to live in a way that reflects the moral perfection of God; it is to live a life marked by love, purity, and righteousness, which are the three most important hallmarks of perfect behavior.

Without Christianity we might, of course, merely sink into an apathetic decline

The crucial point is not how much somebody pays in taxes but rather how much she has left after paying. This biblical lesson has been invoked time and again to justify a tax code that calls on the rich to pay higher rates than the poor.

The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.

They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.

We must speak out when evil shows itself, whether there is any hope of changing it or not.

We are all children of both the good and evil that has gone before us.

Man enters into the ethical world through fear and not through love."—Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil.