Quotes About Morality

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when the fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Those who said they would do so only in return for a greased palm, got a little money.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

Thought for the day. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The Christian always mixes prudence with his devotion. He is willing to serve three gods, but draws the line at one wife.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

Hatred and violence masked in righteousness is the worst kind of delusion

Remember, the only way to bring about the greater good, is to be the greater good.

Right living is the best way to eliminate suffering

The whole world is your own Self. So who is good and who is bad?

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

WOLLNER: I killed them because they were evil people. BAUSEN: Evil? WOLLNER: Evil people. BAUSEN: Was that the only reason? WOLLNER: It's reason enough.

A revolutionary must have solid foundation of revolutionary morality in order to fulfill his glorious revolutionary task.

But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason.