Quotes About Morality

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Freedom does not mean license.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.