Quotes About Morality

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

We can only imagine the repercussions if, today, someone took one of their children and attempted to offer him or her as a sacrifice to please God, professing that God had told them to do it. No doubt such a person would be arrested and placed under psychiatric care, as they should be. But the Abraham story has become so familiar that we fail to read its disturbing dark side.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

Honesty's the best policy.

No better than she should be.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

He preaches well that lives well.

El hombre nace bueno, es naturalmente bueno; la sociedad le malea y pervierte...

Ä°nsan, ne ebedi lanetlenmeyi kavrayabilir ne de mutlak adaleti.

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

Todas as éticas são evolutivas: o que hoje é normal, amanhã será horrendo e o que hoje é crime, amanhã será banal.

We have come to accept that our morality simply no longer has currency outside our own culture.

The profits made from the widespread dependence on illicit drugs are enriching murderers and terrorists. It seems possible that in the near future we shall be ruled by an oligarchy of former drug dealers, who are rapidly gaining wealth and power at the expense of law-abiding citizens. And in our sexual lives, by shedding the shackles of "hypocritical" morality, we have unleashed destructive viruses upon one another.

Even were the time to come when there would be neither poor nor rich, yet there will always be wise and stupid, sly and simple, for so there have ever been and ever will be. The strong man sets his foot on the neck of the weakling; the cunning man runs off with the simpleton's purse and sets the dunce to work for him. Man is a crooked dealer and even his virtue is imperfect. Only he who lies down never to rise again is wholly good.

There is no difference between one man and another, for all are born naked into the world. A man cannot be measured by the colour of his skin, or by his speech, or by his clothes and jewels, but only by his heart. A good man is better than a bad man, and justice is better than injustice--and that is all I know.

Hitler killed six million innocent Jews. The feminists have killed fifty million innocent babies.

Integrity is who we are when we're alone. It's when there's alignment between who we are on the inside and how we come across to others on the outside.