Quotes About Morality

A Native American grandfather was speaking to his grandson about violence and cruelty in the world and how it comes about. He said it was as if two wolves were fighting in his heart. One wolf was vengeful and angry, and the other wolf was understanding and kind. The young man asked his grandfather which wolf would win the fight in his heart. And the grandfather answered, "The one that wins will be the one I choose to feed.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.