Quotes About Morality

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

The violation of the existence and natures of things, of oneself, or of others is evil. Disrespect encroaches upon the space of others, and alters or empties their nature. Respect is respect for the limits, the boundaries, the space of others, and thus for their natures. Morally good action designates the active respect for others, for things, and also for ourselves.

The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.

Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

Life is a civil right. Abortion is a civil wrong.

Seneca, the Roman moralist, called unchastity "the greatest evil of our time". In light of this pronounced deterioration of marriage, countless Roman women engaged in adulterous sex, and when they became pregnant, they destroyed the evidence of their sexual indiscretions, thus adding to Rome's widespread abortions.

Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

De jure objections are arguments of claims to the effect that Christian belief, whether or not true, is at any rate unjustifiable, or rationally unjustified, or irrational, or not intellectually respectable, or contrary to sound morality, or without sufficient evidence, or in some other way rationally unacceptable, not up to snuff from an intellectual point of view.

One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.

There seem to be two strands to this notion of justification. On the one hand, justification seems to have something to do with evidence: a belief (or the believer) is unjustified if there isn't any evidence, or enough evidence, for that belief. On the other hand, justification seems to have something to do with duty, or obligation, or moral rightness.

God has ...created us with cognitive faculties designed to enable us to achieve true beliefs with respect to a wide variety of propositions - propositions about our immediate environment, about our own interior lives, about the thoughts and experiences of other persons, about our universe at large, about right and wrong, about the whole realm of abstracta - numbers, properties, propositions - ... and about himself.

Brought in three or four references to Fallen Women

Sometimes you just have to act on your own. Sometimes you have to do what you know inside to be right.

You can't escape karma ... It is what it is. It doesn't judge, it's neither good nor bad like most people think. It's the result of all the actions, positive and negative--a constant balancing act of events--cause and effect--tit for tat--reaping and sowing--what goes around comes around ... However you phrase it, it's the same in the end.

There's just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can't judge a species by a few bad apples.

sería fácil ser Dios si el mal no existiera, pero entonces tampoco habría ninguna necesidad de Dios

L'amour : c'est une maladie qui rend mauvais. Dès que l'on aime vraiment quelqu'un, on ne peut s'empêcher de lui nuire, même et surtout si l'on veut le rendre heureux.

La cosmetica, povero ignorante, è la scienza dell'ordine universale, la morale suprema che determina il mondo.

KuÅŸkusuz çarm?h?n ülkesinde yaÅŸayanlar ile Japonlar?n prensibi ayn?yd?: Birinin hayat?n? kurtarmak demek, abart?l? minnet durumu sebebiyle onu köle haline getirmek demekti. Ä°nsan?n özgürlüÄŸünü elinden almaktansa ölmesine izin vermek daha iyiydi.

Cada cual tiene su moral. Juzgo los actos con la vara de medir del placer que proporcionan. El éxtasis voluptuoso es la suprema meta de la existencia, y no necesita justificación alguna. Pero, sin placer, el crimen es un mal gratuito, un sórdido daño. Resulta indefendible.

Todo esto confirma mi metafísica: el cuerpo no es malo, el alma sí lo es. El cuerpo es la sangre: es puro. El alma es el cerebro: es grasa. La grasa del cerebro inventó el mal.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.