Quotes About Morality

La música, la naturaleza y Dios se entrelazaron en él formando un conjunto de sentimientos, una unidad moral, cuyo rastro jamás se desvanecería».

Industry and frugality," he wrote in describing the theme of Poor Richard's almanacs, are "the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue.

The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations," he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. "The conduct of the German intellectuals—viewed as a class—was no better than that of the mob.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. And the Scripture assures me that at the last day we shall not be examined by what we thought, but what we did . . . that we did good to our fellow creatures.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation

My lot is that I must be the first decent human being

Men who turn their faith into a business owe all of us a steak dinner now and then.

My father once told me that a great man walks the back roads. He does what's right every day and no one knows it but those lucky enough to be loved by him.

A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn't have done one thing to be proud of.

The law is a flexible thing—on both sides of the line—influenced by circumstance, character, and, of course, wealth or lack of same.

Her name was Alana Ash, and she was everything a happily married man could want in a prostitute.

how many teachers since Socrates actually lived what they taught?

He might not be a good man but he is a good son.

A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn't have done one thing to be proud of.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!

It is by giving fair names to foul actions that those who would start at real vice are led to practise its lessons, under the disguise of virtue.

mercy to a criminal may be gross injustice to the community.

If thou readest the Scripture, said the Jewess, and the lives of the saints, only to justify thine own license and profligacy, thy crime is like that of him who extracts poison from the most healthful and necessary herbs.

Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.

it was Zenocrates, not Plato, who denied that pain was an evil.

cared for no rogues but their own

And see ye not that braid braid road That lies across that lily leven? That is the path of wickedness Though some call it the road to heaven

God's commands are arbitrary if He has no reason to command one act rather than another; but, if He does have reasons for His commands, then His reasons rather than His commands are what make acts immoral.