Quotes About Morality

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.