Quotes About Morality

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Bertrand Russell, scarcely an existentialist: can anyone really believe that the revulsion they feel when they witness the gratuitous infliction of pain is simply an expression of the fact that they don't happen to like it?

A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

To say that God's goodness may be different in kind from man's goodness, what is it but saying, with a slight change of phraseology, that God may possibly not be good?" —John Stuart Mill

For one of these responsibilities is to promote the welfare, including the spiritual welfare, of all created persons; God could no more choose to create persons without accepting that responsibility than human parents can choose to raise children without acquiring an obligation to promote their welfare.

Great management is about character, not technique.

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.

Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.

No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

It is better to go to heaven with a few, than to hell in the crowd.

A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.

The jewel of faith is always put in the cabinet of a good conscience.

As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.

It is in fashion nowadays to go to hell.

Men begin by sinning against the light of conscience, and proceed gradually to despiting the Spirit of grace.

A pure heart avoids that which may be interpreted as evil. He who is loyal to his prince not only forbears to have his hand in treason, but he takes heed of that which has an appearance of treason.

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The king's image counterfeited and stamped upon brass will not go current.