Quotes About Morality

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.

If you decide to live a pure life, don't expect the world to understand your decision.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

All evil is good become cancerous.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

I'm not a sh*tty person, but I'm about to do a sh*tty thing.

Affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

It's easier to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier to just do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

I'm not a shitty person, but I'm about to do a shitty thing.

It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

Not for nothing did H. L. Mencken define Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

As Cotton Mather would write some time later, "Better whip't than damned."*

It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never admitted to being in the wrong about anything.

Taking what is not yours can never bring you or the ones you love any happiness.