Quotes About Morality

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

All my life I'd thought of myself as an essentially good person, but all I'd been was comfortable.

[Neuroscientists] haven't found a 'buy' button inside the brain, we can't tell whether someone is lying or in love just by looking at their brain scans, and we can't turn sinners into saints with hormones.

Good behaviour' at the start means keeping oneself upright and benign in the face of adversity. By the end it has become a byword for enacting cruelty and revenge on your nearest relatives, all, of course, with the utmost subtlety and discretion.

Why, it's a commandment handed down by our ancestors. That was the way they behaved--" "And I suppose their conduct was invariably impeccable, huh?" Chris mocked. "One of the reasons I've always had respect for polygamy is that our ancestors handed it down to us.

Cuando el mal es interior, el Diablo no deja de ser fiel ni en el mayor de los paraísos

Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Pensar que otro te tiene que tratar bien porque tú eres una persona honesta es como esperar que el toro no te embista porque eres vegetariano.

I am an impenitent rotter to this day, a malevolent man, exulting in the transgressions of my betters.

As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter.

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

Virginity was regarded with superstitious awe, perhaps because there was so little of it.)

experiments, some of them rather gruesome. On one occasion, he fed two prisoners the same large dinner, sent one to bed and the other on a headlong hunt, then cut them open to see which had better digested the meal. (It was the sleeper.)

Why do people start wars when they know so many sad things are going to happen?

Geometry . . . is the science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. —THOMAS HOBBES

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.

El valor moral de un acto depende de la intención con que se realiza".

What the Court will decide is another matter - a legality, based on the canonical rules of evidence, and irrelevant, it seems to me, to the fundamental facts, that the finger of God is here and tat the heaven of goodness in this man is still working in the lives of his people.

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it

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.