Quotes About Morality

the boyish desire of the small Britisher, Tom Brown, "to leave behind him the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy or turned his back on a big one.

Donde se ve claro cuánto ayude la ociosidad al vicio, y cuán de provecho sea la ocupación a la virtud.

Try to live by your own sense of right and wrong. Not in response to someone else's treatment of you.

But no histories of Man's goodness have ever been compiled, and no educational curricula that focus on this goodness have

Indeed, the exclusion of Purpose is convenient to the elimination of conscience.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Whether or not you've studied art history, you may have heard some of Vasari's stories—part historical urban legend, part morality tale, his great collective biography spun visual aphorisms that endure to this day.

It is morally and legally okay to show genuine concern for other people.

there are some values worth standing up for, regardless of shifting cultural mores.

Levinas's thought emphasizes not the primacy of the self, but the primacy of the other—that is, other human beings. He taught that the self comes into existence

It is difficult to imagine Fanny [Price] engaged with poultry, or supervising apple-picking... her role as [as a clergyman's wife] suggested by Jane Austen was to be a gently moralizing one. She would strengthen Edmund's moral purposes and supply the shrewd assessment of the people around him which he clearly lacked.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Taking a life diminishes the taker. - Kadar den Arnaud

How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

That's what's most frightening. You can live your life in the best way, the most moral way possible, and it doesn't make any difference. A madman chooses you at random and takes away everything. It's not fair.

I don't believe God will punish you for looking differently at the pattern of life. God is good, it's man who is evil. - Ware

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

All sins cast long shadows.

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else and makes love to him for hours and has this pious look on her face, she's called a German mother and a decent woman. If a young woman without money sleeps with a man with no money because he has smooth skin and she likes him, she's a whore and a bitch.