Quotes About Morality

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

One should never take the easy road, but rather the right road, no matter how long the travel.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

The only sins are violations of love.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. Which wolf will win, grandfather? asks the young boy. Whichever one I feed, is the reply.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love

Love is stronger than justice.

If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

Where there is love there is no sin.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.