Quotes About Morality

...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

The Wages Of Sin Is Death

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

Do you want to stick needles in the living or scalpels in the dead?

It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

The good is not a category that interests me.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.