Quotes About Morality

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice