Quotes About Morality

he observed, "they're sure to go off whoring and get into trouble.

Que un hombre soltero de su clase tuviera una amante se podía tolerar, pero las mujeres debían regirse por unas normas mucho más severas.

An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

Sin is not rational.

Sin is ultimately against God. It is any failure to conform to the law of God in either action or attitude

Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?

The saint shows (Hom. 86, p. 810) the malice and danger of small faults wilfully committed, which many are apt to make slight of; but from such the most dreadful falls take their rise.

No one is to practise or aspire after virtue or perfection upon a motive of greatness, or of being exalted by it. This would be to fall into the snare of pride, which is to be feared under the cloak of sanctity itself.

There is no preparation for a good death but a good life.

The method of forming men to virtue by example, is, of all others, the shortest, the most easy, and the best adapted to all circumstances and dispositions.

It requires conducive social conditions, rather than monstrous people, to produce heinous deeds.

What is immoral to do is immoral to threaten.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.

Integrity has no need of rules.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.