Quotes About Morality

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Mine is a parish like all the rest.  They're all alike.  Those of to-day I mean.  I was saying so only yesterday to M. le Curé de Norenfontes—that good and evil are probably evenly distributed, but on such a low plane, very low Indeed! Or if you like they lie one over the other; like oil and water they never mix.  M. le Curé only laughed at me.

S'il n'y avait que des salauds dans le monde, le Réalisme serait aussi le Bon Sens, car le Réalisme est précisément le bon sens des salauds.

Le mensonge n'a jamais paru répréhensible à Mouchette, car mentir est le plus précieux, et sans doute l'unique privilège des misérables.

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

If no one remembers becomes the equivalent of If there is no God. If there is no God, Dostoyevsky said, then everything is permitted.

No, it couldn't all be bad the way Stonebreaker insisted it was. There were people who hid the children from the sanctioned murderers; people who looked the horror in the eye and said, no, no, you can't do it any more, we're against you even if you kill us. Thus had Sweeney's friends acted, and they had redeemed belief and tradition for millions.

I knew something about myself. Killing was indecent, depraved. I would not get used to it. One killed to survive, to keep one's loved ones alive. No good attached to ending the lives of others. That Ukrainian kid had parents, a family, hopes. Like the millions of us now dying for no reason.