Quotes About Morality

People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

I made my people understand the crucial difference between modesty and self-control. The modest person, I told them, will do nothing blameworthy in the light of day, but a true paragon of self-control—which we all should strive to be—avoids unworthy actions even in the deepest secrecy of his private life.

The corrupt heart breaketh out by the lewd tongue.

We ought to give good examples to our children, because if they see no uncomeliness, they shall be forced to follow goodness and virtue.

In hunting on cultivated grounds, the huntsman must abstain from injuring the fruits of the season, and must leave springs and streams undisturbed; for to interfere with these is contrary to propriety and morality.

But what so different of eating plants? Everything has it's life. If you are so pure, why not just stop eating? So you can have no shit?

In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Deizm, Allah'a imans?zl?k de?il, yozla?t?r?lm?? dinsel ya?ant?dan uzak kalmakt?r. Allah'a iman? tehlikeye at?p ateist olmaktansa, ibadetleri terk edip Allah'a iman? korumak yani deist olmak elbette ye?dir.

Deizmin kutsal? ak?l, bilim ve ahlakt?r.

Deizm, laikli?in bir tür felsefesidir.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness.

I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.

Le regret est un état d'âme. Le remords est un cas de conscience. Et je n'ai ni l'un ni l'autre. (p.57)

Chaque homme est son propre dieu. C'est en choisissant un autre qu'il se renie et devient aveugle et injuste.

You cannot change what's written in the stars. Liar! Later, much later, I would come to this realisation: nothing is written. If it were, there would be no need fo trials, morality would be an ageing hag and shame would not blush in the presence of vertue. Though there are things beyond our understaning, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.