Quotes About Morality

Virtue is not a bad garment, but it requires an imposing figure.

Melchior. What good does that do? Moritz. What good does it have to do?——We are fit for nothing more, neither good nor evil.

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses.

I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.

A girl can have the face of an angel but have a horrid sort of heart.

I may be wicked, but I'm not bad.

Some secrets are wrong and ought to be told.

I deserved a holiday, and I deserved to dispense with the laces and trusses expected of a clergyman's daughter. I wore my oldest frock, which looked remarkably like a potato sack, and I wore very little beneath. I should never have imagined how lovely that feels. It's most freeing, and it gives you the delicious sense you're on your way to moral degeneracy. I shall soon be painting my lips and drinking gin.

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.

Instead of being a surface phenomenon in our expanded neocortex, moral decision-making apparently taps into millions of years of social evolution.

Perhaps religion is like a ship that has carried us across the ocean, having allowed us to develop huge societies with a well-functioning morality. Now that we are spotting land, some of us are ready to disembark

In the third century, Tertullian of Carthage, an early Christian theologian, had a most unusual vision of heaven. While hell was a place of torture, heaven was a balcony from which the saved ones could watch hell, thus enjoying the spectacle of doomed souls frying in the fire.

By placing people in brain scanners and asking them to resolve moral dilemmas, experts have discovered that such dilemmas activate ancient emotional centers deeply embedded in the brain. Instead of being a surface phenomenon in our expanded neocortex, moral decision-making apparently taps into millions of years of social evolution.

Lo que interpretamos como un sentimiento de culpa en las personas a menudo es, igual que en los perros, una manera de evitar consecuencias negativas, más que la evidencia de una distinción profunda entre lo correcto y lo incorrecto.

Color is nothing, I do not even notice it, I know only one thing, which is the purity of my conscience and the whiteness of my soul.

If philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

Whoever harms an innocent man, pure and faultless, his evil comes back at him like dust thrown into the wind. Sutta Nipata 662

Les Français adorent donner, en levant un index vertueux, des leçons de morale au monde

Charles Patterson resume en una frase que triunfa y escandaliza: "Auschwitz empieza cuando un hombre ve un matadero y dice: solo son animales".