Quotes About Morality

even toddlers know that rules should be followed but that they can be changed. These two capacities, capacities for love and law, for caring about others and following the rules, allow our characteristically human combination of moral depth and flexibility.

Japanese children were taught a code in school. It had three laws: (a) Do not be a burden to others; (b) Take care of others; (c) Do not expect rewards for your goodness.

By acting against his own government, he would most likely lose all chance of advancement, ruin his career, and be disgraced. He might endanger all their lives. He added that although he might have to disobey his government, if he didn't act, he would be disobeying God.

Brian knows the affair is wrong. He's known from the moment Wendy first undressed in his office. But with her hot, wet tongue in his ear, and her taut, pink nipples straining against his starched white shirt, and with Mick Jagger's strident voice squawking about satisfaction on the tiny transistor radio, Brian's body refuses to obey. Instead of shoving Wendy out the door, he shoves her onto the unmade bed.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

The idea of monogamous same-sex relationships being acceptable to God emerges from an unwillingness to submit to the clear teaching of Scripture.

He would have made an excellent politician or statesman but had unfortunately been cursed from birth with an unshakable incorruptibility and moral integrity. The

There are many things that people will do in the dark that they will not do in light.

Lorsque tu verras une bonne D'enfants, et non autre personne, Assise au milieu d'un tender Ou wagon de chemin de fer, Découvres-toi sur son passage, Salut à son noble visage ! Moralité A bonne en tender, salut. " (Fables de Joinville)

I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love

Cultural relativism destroys both one's own and the good.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power.

The fact that in Germany the politics were of the Right and in the United States of the Left should not mislead us. In both places the universities gave way under the pressure of mass movements, and did so in large measure because they thought those movements possessed a moral truth superior to any the university could provide. Commitment was understood to be profounder than science, passion than reason, history than nature, the young than the old.

The practical politics of all the philosophers, no matter how-great their theoretical differences, were the same. They practiced an art of writing that appealed to the prevailing moral taste of the regime in which they found themselves, but which could lead some astute readers outside of it to the Elysian Fields where the philosophers meet to talk.

Thrasymachus sees that Socrates does not respect the city. He sees the truth about Socrates, but he cannot, at least in the beginning, appreciate him. The others appreciate him, but partly because they are blind to what is most important to him.

Honesty compels serious men, on examination of their consciences, to admit that the old faith is no longer compelling. It is the very peak of Christian virtue that demands the sacrifice of Christianity.

According to Machiavelli, love of virtue is only an imagination, a kind of perversion of desire effected by societys (i.e., others) demands on us.

A value-creating man is a plausible substitute for a good man, and some such substitute becomes practically inevitable in pop relativism, since very few persons can think of themselves as just nothing. The respectable and accessible nobility of man is to be found not in the quest for or discovery of the good life, but in creating ones own life-style, of which there is not just one but many possible, none comparable to another.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doingin addition to caring for mans well-beingthey were providing rights for themselves.

Toda crença é respeitável, quando sincera e conducente à prática do bem. Condenáveis são as crenças que conduzam ao mal.

3. Toda a moral de Jesus se resume na caridade e na humildade, isto é, nas duas virtudes contrárias ao egoísmo e ao orgulho.

A melancholy conclusion, if such were really the case for, were it so, good and evil would be alike devoid of aim every man would be justified in thinking only of himself, and in subordinating every other consideration to the satisfaction of his material instincts. Thus all social ties would be broken, and the holiest affections would be destroyed forever.

La fe, divina aspiración de Dios, despierta todos los nobles instintos que conducen el hombre al bien; es la base de la regeneración.