Quotes About Morality

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Character, not circumstance, make a man.

By the way, have you ever noticed that if any one of us lies to them, it is a felony? But if any one of them lies to us, it is considered politics.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

Just because there isn't a "Thou shalt not" attached to a situation does not necessarily mean it is a "Thou shalt.

The law was given to reveal what real sin looked like. When God gave the 10 commandments to Moses, his purpose wasn't to show us how we can be perfect and make it into heaven. God knew we could never live up to it. He did it so we can could see how bad we really can be.

Ortopraxia? Ortopraxia es un término compuesto que simplemente significa práctica correcta. En contextos teológicos, la ortopraxia es la forma en la que la ortodoxia (la creencia correcta) se ve en el mundo real. Es el comportamiento tanto ético como moral asociado con una fe o sistema de creencias.

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity. Most of the major social ills in America are caused by, or fueled by, the misuse of our sexuality.

Likewise, most of the world goes to bed at night under the assumption that if they were to die in their sleep, they would find themselves standing at the pearly gates. After all, good people go to heaven. And just about everybody thinks they are good.

If there's an area in your life where you tell yourself, "I know this is wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway, and probably repeat it," Solomon would answer, "In that area of your life, you're a fool." And

Don't good things come to good people?

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Out there's a moral law. Within I've only stars!

Hay que joder para vivir y no vivir para joder". Quien así hablaba, con tan sobria moral era -naturalmente- una prostituta. Sirva de ejemplo a respetables damas, críticos literarios, policías.

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity.

One of Sade's singularities is that he offers an absolutely sexualised view of the world, a sexualisation that permeates everything, much as his atheism does and, since he is not a religious man but a political man, he treats the facts of female sexuality not as a moral dilemma but as a political reality.

Repression is Justine's whole being - repression of sex, of anger and of her own violence; the repressions demanded of Christian virtue, in fact.

These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...