Quotes About Morality

It is no more immoral to kill yourself quickly than it is to kill yourself slowly.

In truth, there is nothing evil, only objective phenomena and experience.

You are told you are not to use for personal gratification something which is intensely personally gratifying! This obvious contradiction is apparent to you, but you don't know where to go with the conclusion! So you decide that if you feel guilty about how good you feel during and after sex, that will at least make it all right.

If a thing is obviously right, do it. But remember to exercise extreme judgment regarding what you call "right" and "wrong." A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

Rightness" or "wrongness" is not an intrinsic condition, it is a subjective judgment in a personal value system. By your subjective judgments do you create your Self—by your personal values do you determine and demonstrate Who You Are.

Užas iskustva sa Hitlerom nije u tome da je on to namerno u?inio ljudskoj rasi, nego u tome da muje to ljudska rasa omogu?ila i dopustila. Za?u?uju?e je ne samo to da se pojavio jedan Hitler, nego to što su milioni pošli s njim. Sramotno je ne samo to što je Hitler pobio milione Jevreja, nego i to što su milioni Jevreja poginuli prije nego što je Hitler zaustavljen

In your society, you often do not see the contradictions of your own moral constructions. The contradiction between doing things that you know full well are going to shorten your life, but doing them slowly, and doing things that will shorten your life quickly is one of the most glaring in the human experience.

They've made this choice based not on a moral structure or spiritual revelation that some other being or group has brought forth, but, rather, on a simple observation of what is so, and what works.

You've even created religions that tell you that you are born in sin—that you are sinners at birth—in order to convince yourselves of your own evil.

Guilt is often used by you in your attempt to feel bad about something you feel good about—and thus reconcile yourself with God…who you think does not want you to feel good about anything!

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before…

There are times, believe you me, when to lie would be a sin and to tell the truth would be a disaster.

Consider this pronouncement, inscribed on an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 B.C.: Our earth is degenerate these days . . . bribery and corruption abound, children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching.

the Disney pantheon that if you wear clothes, you can own other animals who do not

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

Guilt is about what you do with your dick. Shame is about being a dick.

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

Here," he said. "I brought this for you." It was a small hardcover edition of an eighteenth century book called The Path of the Just with a note he had written for me inscribed on the title page. It quoted the Talmud: Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. So he was trying to save me. Why? I was having fun.

I had violated one of Ross Jeffries's only ethical rule of seduction: Leave her better than you found her.

The first: No good deed goes unpunished. (A phrase, ironically, that was coined by a woman, Clare Boothe Luce.) The

The distinction between a Christian and a pagan is no longer obvious. The

It's up to you to choose whether you're going to use your body, which includes your brain, for sin or for the sake of righteousness.

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.