Quotes About Morality

An evil life is a kind of death.

Stay far hence, far hence, you prudes!

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced as such, is at the heart, for good and evil, of his faculty of reasoning, and thus makes possible his language, his art, his morality, and indeed his humanity. Yet it is the enemy of life, for repetition is itself the principle, not of life but of mechanism.

Only monsters would harm a cat.

the democratic theory of the First Amendment—dedicated to preserving the vitality and robustness of public debate—requires that the focus be on the listeners and their need for information and critical perspectives, not on the moral qualities of the speaker.

Our gentlemen visitors ain't allowed no more than a smile and a squeeze in the public rooms, for I won't 'ave Sodom and Gomorrah under my roof. I always tell my girls, I tell them, 'Ladies, just show the boys enough to give them a proper 'int of what they're in for. And close your door be'ind you when you're entertaining, for a gentleman is easily embarrassed.

Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning. Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! Beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

But this I can say: to call any act evil, instantly begs the question. Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning.

And death is a thing much cleaner than vice.

Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

You know the worst thing about bad people, Grace? It's what they make good people do.

I don't eat animals." "What's the problem with eating animals? Animals don't have problems eating other animals. You ever have a cat? Those suckers are the sweetest, most adorable little bloodthirsty killers in the world.

Instead of unthinkingly rushing into action, we can ask ourselves: Do I really want to do this? Is anybody going to be hurt by this? Will I like having done this?

The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted. No matter how polite and pleasant and accommodating a man may be, none of us dare to deal with him if we suspect "false weights and measures.

The only preaching which is up to date for every time is the preaching of this eternity, which is opened to us in the Bible alone – the eternal of holy love, grace and redemption, the eternal and immutable morality of saving grace for our indelible sin.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.

Day and night, look into your mind. If your stream of mind contains any nonvirtue, renounce it from the core of your heart and pursue virtue.