Quotes About Morality

Let them look upon virtue and pine because they have lost her.

Life sometimes hurts like hell but I've discovered that deleting God from the equation doesn't actually help. It merely removes all meaning and morality from the mess, and all real hope from the future

Do you still believe in God, Rabbi?", she said at last. His face looked drained and pale. He shook his head from side to side. "I believe in sin," he said and finished his wine. I believe in evil.

Quakers quaking. Congregationalists congregating, Baptists baptizing, Dutch Reformers reforming; Episcopalians pissing on the lot. All asked for money to support the war against evil.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

When the moral judgment is removed, individuals are able to acknowledge and experience their authentic life energy freely.

Washington could not have called on his men to be such authentic Christians, if he was not trying to be such a Christian as well.

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed -- but only just -- in the middle of the twentieth century.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

The holy cannot be gained by the unholy.

Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.

paraphrasing it. Secondly, his approach to literature is overwhelmingly moral; its purpose is to teach us about life, to transmit humane

We all have to recognize—no matter how great our strength," Truman declared, "that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.

What law is, what the relationship is between law and morality, are matters of incessant jurisprudential debate. But it is not disastrously misleading to say that law is the normative system applied in the courts.

Goriot was "a grease spot in his daughters' drawing rooms." Once they squeezed the money out of him he's discarded "like a lemon peel" in the gutter. The moral drawn by the Duchesse: "Society is a mudhole. Let's try to remain up on the heights.

So," he said, after he had taken a bite "you're not going to tell me?" "Not going to tell you what?" "Whether or not you're gay." "No," I said. "Why should I? Did you tell your parents?" "I wasn't gay," said my father. "I was straight." "So, what, if you're gay you have a moral obligation to inform your parents and if you're straight you don't?

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.

While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line.

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given a A for adultery. Today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

The spiritual disconnection many feel today stems precisely from expecting (or being told to expect) the Bible to be holy, perfect, and clear, when in fact after reading it they find it to be morally suspect, out of touch, confusing, and just plain weird.

The life of Christian faith is more than agreeing with a set of beliefs about Christ, morality, or how to read the Bible. It means being so intimately connected to Christ that his crucifixion is ours, his death is our death, and his life is our life—which is hardly something we can grasp with our minds. It has to be experienced. It is an experience.

Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.

It's not a god he worships, it's the devil.