Quotes About Morality

if you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all:

If then, merely out of regard to population, it were right that paederasts should be burnt alive, monks ought to be roasted alive over a slow fire. (Offences Against One's Self

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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.  Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.  Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father, a noble, pious man.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father - a noble, pious man.

We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness.

Speak truth, and right will take care of itself.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

People prefer to avoid confronting deformity and when they do it's only for kicks.

From God's point of view it seemed to make more sense if everyone lost the war, since everyone was committing murder.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. The smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

Sometimes," she said, "what we want to do and what we must do are not the same." She put a hand on his shoulder. "Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

you broke up two marriages, and faked a young woman's illness, and bribed her to get an abortion—all in the first chapter—

but the very idea scandalized her. "What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he is dead?

Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

The logic against them could not be more elementary. First, the unborn entity is an actual being, it is alive. If this were not so, there would be no need for an abortion. The very purpose of the abortion is to kill that which is alive. Second, this being is human. What else could it be? Feline? Canine? Bovine? As Congressman Henry Hyde once quipped, "No woman has ever given birth to a Golden Retriever." Human beings give birth to human beings.

Should a person wear the clothes of their enemy or the clothes of their hero?

expedience could not take precedence over the pursuit of justice.

The world would be a much nicer place if people only used guns on themselves.

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.