Quotes About Morality

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have

Religion blushing veils her sacred fires,And unawares Morality expires.Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!Lo! thy dread empire Chaos! is restor'd:Light dies before thy uncreating word;Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall,And universal darkness buries all.

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

An honest man is the noblest work of God.

An honest man's the noblest work of God

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.

Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit? In both, to reason right is to submit.

But why insult the poor, affront the great?' A knave's a knave, to me, in every state.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed." / What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.

Cehennem korkusuna, polis korkusuna, ceza korkusuna dayal? bir iyilik, iyilik say?lmaz — bu korkakl?ktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. Ödül, övgü ya da cennet beklentisine ba?l? iyilik, rü?vetçili?e girer. Günümüz ahlâk? çocuklar? korkakla?t?rmaktad?r çünkü kendisi ya?amdan korkutmaktad?r. S?k?düzenden geçirilen ö?rencilerin 'iyili?i' asl?nda i?te budur.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Liars lie to others and they lie to themselves without even the concept of lying arising in their minds because this concept doesn't exist for them. There is no judgment, remorse, guilt, worry, or condemnation because lying is not a right or wrong thing. It just is. An axiomatic "Given." To

Lack of personal morality plus "politically correct" prohibition against judging others' behavior and naming immorality sets up a social environment receptive and vulnerable to a tyrannical government. A tyrannical government transforms every aspect of the cultural day-to-day lives of everyone under its control across all areas from the educational and penal systems to fine art and entertainment dictates right on down to housing regulations and food availabilities.