Quotes About Morality

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.