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Quotes About Morality

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.
~ Piers Anthony
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.
~ Ouida
I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.
~ R.L. LaFevers
Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.
~ Ray Bradbury
A good, all-loving god would not destroy his creations no matter how they act. He tells parents to love their children unconditionally. I say 'you first, God.'
~ Ryan Hofmeister
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.
~ Shailer Mathews
Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.
~ Stephen Mitchell
Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
~ Thomas Jefferson
People love that monkey torture.
~ Thomas Lennon
I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.
~ Tom Hollander
When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.
~ Vanessa Carlton
Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.
~ William John Locke
I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.
~ William McNamara
Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.
~ William Shakespeare
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.
~ Ayn Rand
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
~ Bayard Taylor
La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.
~ Charles Baudelaire
For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.
~ Cornel West
I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.
~ Danny Huston
The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.
~ Deacon Jones
If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she's done something abominable, do you stop loving her?
~ Diane Chamberlain
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.
~ Dorothy Allison
Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.
~ Eckhart Tolle