Quotes About Morality

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

His sister was a lesbian, but that didn't make him decent.

Er zijn noodzakelijke en minder noodzakelijke zonden.

With us, love is just as punishable as murder or robbery…

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

I had the additional disadvantage of being unable to approve my own conduct; being a child of the age, I knew how wrong and how misguided it was. I walked around with a scarlet letter embroidered upon my bosom, visible enough in the end, but the A stood for Abstinence, not for Adultery.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...

There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

Puzzavo di libri e di onestà.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Too many people, when they reject God, go on believing in the devil. Many intellectuals have a sense of evil without a confidence in good.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.".... He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

They're cloying, with their sancity-of-marriage act.