Quotes About Morality

some say that the difference between catholic guilt and jewish guilt is that the former emanates from the knowledge that we are all born already fallen, that there is nothing we can ever do to overcome the original sin; the latter springs from a sense that every one of us was created in god's image and has the potential for perfection. so catholic guilt is about impossibility, while jewish guilt is about an abundance of possibility.

On Christmas morning, Rebecca lost her moral virginity, her sense of humor - and her two best friends. But, other than that, it was a hell of a holiday.

Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

Kings and abbots are also men, and can fall to temptation.

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

[On Rear Window:] I'll bet you that nine out of ten people, if they see a woman across the courtyard undressing for bed, or even a man puttering around in his room, will stay and look; no one turns away and says, "It's none of my business." They could pull down their blinds, but they never do; they stand there and look out.

Ah, crap! Isn't Wrong worth the same as Right?

Ethics is too fundamentally important a factor in civilization to depend upon a theological or a legal excuse; [pg 035] ethics must conform to the natural laws of human nature.

Mrs. Chippy some distance from camp and shot them without a qualm

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—Else, wherefore born?

He said likewiseThat a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

In my preface, I quoted an e-mail message from someone who was upset by the news that neuroscientists had shown that free will is an illusion. She was, she said, "in a lot of despair." My final moral is the title of a song: "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Scientists have not shown this. Nor has anyone shown that there are no effective intentions. This is good news for just about everyone.

I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.

Jealousy is the cause of erosion of good deeds, as well as the attracter of chastisement.

The one who thinks he is obliged to commit sin has attributed the responsibility of his sin towards Allah & has accused Him of cruelty & excess upon His servants.

Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.

A virtuous person is better then virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection it, will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

God, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth.