Quotes About Morality

In actuality, the sociopath is not without a morality; he is simply without the one we want.

Robert Keller

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Protecting the weak is the whole fucking basis for civilization. If you're not protecting the weak, you're not civilized. You're fucking animals.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

I should be just as concerned about what I consume on Monday morning as I am on Saturday night. My vows, meaning my covenants, made at baptism and in the holy temple, should and must guide me throughout the entire week.

While the morality of slavery alone might have eventually led to a showdown, it was America's sprawling growth that made the issue explosive.

God will judge those who treat lightly their marriage vows, or who engage in other forms of sexual impurity, saying: "whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." There is no such thing as "safe immorality," known erroneously today as "safe sex." It doesn't work.

virtue-signalling is all about boasting,' reported Phillips. 'It flaunts the signaller's credentials as a morally virtuous person. It screams, "Me! Me! Me!

There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us not to talk about the rest of us.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Why do we hunger so for vicious things? Our wishes bend the statues of the gods.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.

I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it.

George Stout saw through their acts. "I am sick of all schemers," he wrote, "of all the vain crawling toads who now edge into positions of advantage and look for selfish gain or selfish glory from all this suffering."13

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.