Quotes About Morality

it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. It represents the true spirit of Eastern democracy by making all its votaries aristocrats in taste.

In ethics the Taoist railed at the laws and the moral codes of society, for to them right and wrong were but relative terms.

We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state. Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance. People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.

Those who are born to uphold Dharma in this world always have to wage war.

there is no greater force within creation than the free will of beings endowed with self-consciousness and spiritual intellect; and so the misuse of this free will can have altogether terrifying consequences.

If there is a "problem of evil", there is also a "problem of good.

to the end, and without exceptions: then all is justified and life is illumined, whereas otherwise it is an abomination and a burden

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

On remembering that there was no correlation between evil and competence.

Using others is a sin. Why should I wish to use another?

He felt the reassuring thump of having driven over a small animal, the jolt of it firming up the offer of a sick, annealing grin.

I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

Because right and wrong are societo-religious creations. They have no basis in reality.

how can a good man be a lawyer in a dictatorship?

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.

neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen

Coach John Wooden [UCLA] taught me that sports wasn't just about making us better athletes, but about making us better people. Compassion, kindness, and morality were more important than a championship season. Fame wasn't an accomplishment, it was an opportunity to show our gratitude to the community that we are a part of by changing it for the better.

If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

In a late interview, Belle herself characterized her life as if it were one long sin that needed to be confessed—with one pointed exception. "I have lied, sworn, killed (I guess) and I have stolen," she said. "But . . . I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman. . . . Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

I do not mind mankind's crimes, but I do mind its hypocrisy.