Quotes About Morality

That's all we may expect of man, this side. The grave: his good is—knowing he is bad.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.The honest thief, the tender murderer,The superstitious atheist, demirepThat loves and saves her soul in new French books.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor goodCompensate bad in man, absolve him so:Life's business being just the terrible choice.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

A prince can mak a belted knight,A marquis, duke, and a' that;But an honest man's aboon his might,Guid faith, he mauna fa' that.

On ev'ry hand it will allow'd be,He's just—nae better than he should be.

Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that aye be your border.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip, To haud the wretch in order;

They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Honesty in small things is not a small thing.

Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.

When Ludwig asked if he saw no good points in the Jesuits, he replied: "Yes, they are systematic and persistent in the pursuit of bad ends. But their chief method is surveillance, spying, invasion of the inner life, the violation of people's feelings, and what can be positive in that?

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners, not by spiritual and moral aces

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Reason breeds more monsters than conscience, Mr. Findley.

She had made it clear, as had Damian, that although the marriage solemnized a real commitment, it didn't mean she and I were finished. But we saw each other far less often than we once had. And to be honest, I was a little uncomfortable about sleeping with a married woman. Not because the relationship was immoral but because it was brutally asymmetrical.

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Unfortunately there is no doubt about the fact that man is, as a whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. –Carl Jung