Quotes About Morality

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.

I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

In their capacity to feel pain and fear, a pig is a dog is a bear is a boy.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.