Quotes About Morality

There are always rules," Gwen said, serious again. "Good is held to them, evil is not. Sort of an unfair advantage right from the start." Marco

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, what you do—is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is the light that guides your way. —HERACLITUS

No worthy end can ever really be accomplished with unworthy means.

I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

Nice," I tell him. "So you literally steal candy from babies.

This theory, then, is in the first place based on an erroneous assumption--viz., that abstinence from things lawful is intrinsically a higher sort of virtue than temperance in the use of them. This is not true. Abstinence is the virtue of the weak, temperance is the virtue of the strong.

In the name of patriotism you are ordered to stop being decent and honest, to cease being yourself, to suspend your own judgment, and give up your life; to become a will-less cog in a murderous machine, blindly obeying the order to kill, pillage, and destroy; to give up your father and mother, wife and child, and all that you love, and proceed to slaughter your fellow-men who never did you any harm — who are just as unfortunate and deluded victims of their masters as you are of yours.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which they cannot control, they will often be restrained by the bare apprehension of opposition, from doing what they would with eagerness rush into, if no such external impediments were to be feared.

I never did think the truth was a crime.

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.

A gude conscience is the best divinity.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has d——d few virtues. Good-day.

That the gods never concern themselves with the protection of the innocent, only with the punishment of the guilty.

More sins have been committed by the church than any seaman

She'd always said that there must be something very bad about money, because those who needed it most never had it, and so many who had it would do such awful things to get more of it. The

Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.

there is very little connection between law and justice.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing