Quotes About Morality

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The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed.

As we shall see below, without that tinge of moral remorse, however, there would have been no catharsis, and therefore no surviving culture.

It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.

When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.

No Galahad, he still cherished the conviction that women, with rare exceptions, were either "good" or "bad".

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

we have the idea that there are big sins and little sins. But the book of James tells us that, 'Whosoever shall keep the whole law yet offend in one point, the same is guilty of all.' Do you see what that means? We think that murder is a much worse sin than gossip or telling a lie, but according to God, they are both offenses against His law, and we become offenders whether we commit murder or adultery

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous and uncomfortable enemy because his body which you can always conquer gives you so little purchase over his soul.

Probably throughout history the worst things ever done in the world on a large scale by decent people have been done in the name of religion, and I do not think that has entirely ceased to be true at the present day.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

But when a person has done the right thing, we cannot then say that he knew how to do the wrong thing, or that he was competent to make mistakes.