Quotes About Morality

People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same.

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?

Every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.

Cred ca societatea are nevoie de anumite persoane care sa ii faca treburile murdare.

Could the two constructs – psychopathy and utilitarianism – possibly be linked? Bartels and Pizarro wondered. The answer was a resounding yes. Their analysis revealed a significant correlation between a utilitarian approach to the trolley problem (push the fat guy off the bridge) and a predominantly psychopathic personality style.

My conscience certainly feels like it's been spiked with moral Rohypnol.

Today, I'll look some fuck right in his eyes and squeeze the trigger on him without even giving two shits about it, knowing I'm going to take everything he ever had, ever will have, ever loved, ever loved him away without as much as a second thought and sleep just fine tonight. That should really fuck up the normal guy, but not me.

While Billy Graham welcomed the adoption of the National Day of Prayer, he saw it as merely the beginning of the political and moral transformation needed to save the nation. In late 1951, he insisted that "the Christian people of America will not sit idly by during the 1952 presidential campaign. [They] are going to vote as a bloc for the man with the strongest moral and spiritual platform, regardless of his views on other matters.

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.

Displaying good character as a means of avoiding retribution after life is not just problematic but inherently selfish.

Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity.

Batman has an impeccable moral compass, he's clever and mysterious, and when fucktards get sassy, he punches them in the face.

It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste.

What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism. - Rufus, Dogma

Your values never fail you. You fail your values.

It should make perfect sense that if a man is a personal, self-consciously moral creature, and if a personal creature is made by a personal Creator, then the personal Creator must have a personal interest in the personal creatures He made.

Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isa. 5:20) If all that is evil is called good, what is there left to call evil, but one thing: those Christians that uphold the objective, eternal law of the Creator of heaven and earth.

When many Christian teachers enter the public schools, instead of teaching the fear of God as the beginning of knowledge, they do just the opposite. They teach children not to fear God. In so doing, they contribute to the ongoing demise of the Christian faith in academics, politics, and the marketplace.

For nearly twenty years, he'd produced these iconic photographs of the world's war zones and he suspected he was alone in seeing what he'd done.  Far from exposing the truth, he'd reduced human tragedy to the level of pornography, or worse, for pornographers were at least honest.

there were a button that would end the world, and that button were right in front of me, I would have smashed it so hard at that moment. I often thought about a button like that, and when I did, I always knew that I'd push it.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.