Quotes About Morality

I feel sorry for many politicians... we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

I know my soul is beautiful; I know I'm a good person. And that will never change for me.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

They're good little kids. They have good hearts and good souls... We just try to communicate with them as best we can constantly and show them through our actions with different people how you treat others as you would like to be treated.

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.