Quotes About Morality

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.

You see, Satan is not a monster. We don't see him when he comes because he has disguised himself in beauty. The devil is, after all, an angel of light. The Morning Star. Do not allow yourself to be seduced by the beautiful side of evil.

Audiences for ten years have been startled to learn that the federal law that makes these humans illegal isn't even on the criminal books. You can look it up for yourself, since no TV or radio host is going to waste a segment explaining the actual law to you. Right or left. Felony? Nope. Misdemeanor? Sorry, but no.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Better a shamed face than a stained heart,' Teresita announced.

Men who do good deeds only wish to atone for their sins.

Sex without sin is like an egg without salt.

The only reason to sign [petitions] is to assuage the conscience of the signatory.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father!

Those who find the world something worthy of praise or who congratulate themselves for having been born in it are either intellectually blind or morally perverse.

From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.

In mythology and religion, no less than in other spheres of life there is much in the way of self-serving interests, deceitfulness, mindlessness, and vices.

Schopenhauer once said: the life of one dog may be worth more than the lives of many human beings.

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Someone who could get up in the morning, make coffee, choose what to wear, and then go out and cold-bloodedly put a total stranger to death. Did you have to be some kind of anomalous, psychopathic freak to do that? Did you have to be born that way? Or could any woman, correctly programmed, be turned into a professional executioner?

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.