Quotes About Morality

NOW THAT ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us.

Karla had not been a total loss—she had provided Hans-Peter with some amusement and he was able to sell both her kidneys.

Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

Kejujuran merupakan suatu kebijakan dalam bisnis, yang tidak perlu diubah atau disesuaikan dengan waktu.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.