Quotes About Morality

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

In my entire life, I've never managed to do anything that I've truly been ashamed of.

It sounds like if it weren't for your boyfriend, you'd be eating meat." "Probably," I admitted. "But I agree with Dane's take on the issues, and most of the time it's not a problem for me. Unfortunately, I'm temptable." "I like that in a woman. It almost makes up for your conscience.

The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.

Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.

In Jack's view, you were obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning.

Let me kiss you here," he coaxed. "Just once." "Oh, God… no." She reached down and weakly pushed his hand away. "It's a sin." "How do you know?" "Because it feels like one," she managed to say. He laughed quietly and pulled her hips farther toward him with a decisiveness that drew a little yelp from her. "In that case… I never sin by half measures.

Inwardly she argued with herself, reflecting that it never ended well when one did something morally questionable for the right reasons.

Too much thinking will excite the sparks of vice.

do you truly expect that the two of us are going to share a bed tonight- and tomorrow night- as chastely as a pair of nuns on holiday?" "That will pose no difficulty for me," Evie said gingerly, conscious that she was delivering an insult of the highest order.

But it's a fact of life that dreadful people usually end up getting far better than they deserve.

We men face temptations. Sometimes we stray. It is the way of the world." "It's not my way," Matthew said flatly. "I stand by my word, both in business and in my personal life. If or when I promise to be faithful to a woman, I would be. No matter what.

Having your own church doesn't make you a good guy. It only makes you tax-exempt.

Es mucho más fácil ser malo —dijo el—. Especialmente si uno no tiene ninguna razón para ser bueno.

Most men have inner demons," Kingston replied quietly. "God knows I do. So does a friend who's the finest and most genuinely moral man I've ever known.

The sin was not love, but the lack of it. The thing to fear was not scandal, but the betrayal of one's own morality.

You took Theo's title and his home," West continued in appalled disbelief, "and now you want his wife." "His widow," Devon muttered. "Have you seduced her?" "Not yet." West clapped his hand to his forehead. "Christ. Don't you think she's suffered enough?

It would be difficult to find a man still on the early side of his thirties who had acquired wealth and power at the speed that Tom Severin had. He'd started as a mechanical engineer designing engines, then progressed to railway bridges, and had eventually built his own railway line, all with the apparent ease of a boy playing leapfrog. Severin could be generous and considerate, but his better qualities were unanchored by anything resembling a conscience.

It's a sin." "How do you know?" "Because it feels like one

St. Vincent was a handsome man with wheat-colored hair and pale blue eyes. Some claimed he had the most perfect form and features of any man alive. The looks of a saint, the soul of a scoundrel.

Would you say that you're a good man, Harry?" He had to think about that. "No," he finally said. "In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.

You, sir, are a moral abyss.' Rather than look shamed, he actually grinned at the remark. 'And you, my lady, are a prude.