Quotes About Morality

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.

The best of humanity is philosophy.

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the rules.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

Good and evil lay side by side.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.