Quotes About Morality

Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

Where there are laws, innocence need not tremble.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

lazy and content to lead an idle life, he is immoral, because upon him depend hundreds. If he gets riches, hundreds of others will be thereby supported.

We all know about morality, and we all know about duty, but at the same time we find that in different countries the significance of morality varies greatly.

A householder who does not struggle to get wealth is immoral. If

I no longer remember which psychiatrist wrote a dissertation demonstrating that the assassins hadn't lost their moral bearings: they knew how to discern Good and Evil; it was the sense of reality that was missing. In their eyes, the victims did not belong to humankind;

Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.

Ni? ni resni?no, vse je dovoljeno.

Nada es verdadero, todo está permitido!

Nothing is true; everything is permitted

Conclusion : l'idéal esthétique est hédoniste et susceptible de progrès. L'idéal moral est doloriste et n'est pas objet d'apprentissage.

Por isso dizemos que para nós não há uma moral situada fora da sociedade humana; isso é um engano. Para nós, a moral está subordinada aos interesses da luta de classes do proletariado.

[On adultery:] A most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.†

He who is merely just is severe.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.