Quotes About Morality

I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But then you're a vegan and you don't count.

Addressing the non-tenure-track instructors was a ticklish and morally complicated task—akin to a ship's captain going belowdecks to rouse the galley slaves at their posts.

From his loftiest pulpit the modern clerc assures man that he is great in proportion as he is practical.

The desire to abase the values of knowledge before the values of action...

The modern moralists extol the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.

Up until our own times men had only received two sorts of teaching in what concerns the relations between politics and morality. One was Platos and it said: Morality decides politics; and the other was Machiavellis, and it said Politics have nothing to do with morality. Today we receive a third. M. Maurras teaches: Politics decide morality.

Those who lead men to the conquest of material things have no need of justice and charity.

But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

On peut être criminel sans sans avoir jamais manié une arme ou une pince-monseigneur.

Libre el bebé y fajado el hombre, la pediatra de adultos, Dama Ciencia abre su consultorio, hay que evitar que el hombre se deforme por exceso de sueños, fajarle la visión, manearle el sexo, enseñarle a contar para que todo tenga un número. A la par la moral y la ciencia (no se asombre, señora, es tan frecuente) y por supuesto la sociedad que sólo sobrevive si sus células cumplen el programa.

Tus nociones sobre la verdad y la bondad son puramente históricas, se fundan en una ética heredada. Pero la historia y a ética me parecen a mí altamente dudosas.

It is a sign of regression when pleasure begins to be considered as the highest principle

In periods of decadence such as the present one, sensuality develops in the dissociated form of simple pleasure. As a result, sex becomes a kind of drug, and the addiction to it is no less profane than actual drug addiction

Dont twist the story Better tell the truth Sometimes white lies End up greediness

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

What is the moral meaning of our own gods?

I could understand ignorance, but I could not accept its glorification, still less its right to rule.

Entitled 'My Country and Its Appeal', she commented on China's cultural icon Confucius: 'His grossest mistake was the failure to regard womankind with due respect. We learn from observation that no nation can rise to distinction unless her women are educated and considered as man's equal morally, socially, and intellectually … China's progress must come largely through her educated women.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps lay hold of hell