Quotes About Morality

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us; the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes

Here nobody's supposed to belong to more than one person. And if you have people in the ordinary way, the others think you're wicked and anti-social.

Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began.

Volt valami, amit kereszténységnek hívtak, mint már említettem (…) Az alulfogyasztás etikája és filozófiája…

All too many Christians have behaved as though the devil were a first principle, on the same footing as god. They have paid more attention to evil and the problem of its eradication than to good and the methods by which individual goodness may be deepened, and the sum of goodness increased.

Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational

Turning to God without turning from self' - the formula is absurdly simple; and yet, simple as it is, it explains all the follies and iniquities committed in the name of religion.

You've got to be good before you can do good - or at any rate do good without doing harm at the same time. Helping with one hand and hurting with the other - that's what the ordinary reformer does.

connected with, the sins of pride, envy, chronic anger and an uncharitableness pushed sometimes to the level of active cruelty.

He would have liked to behave well, but he did not know how to stop behaving badly.

The spirit was a libertine, but the flesh and its affections were chaste.

the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

Make for virtue and happiness, generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Lo que importaba era más la felicidad que la verdad y la belleza.

The murkiest den, the most opportune place" (the voice of conscience thundered poetically), "the strongest suggestion our worser genius can, shall never melt mine honour into lust. Never, never!" he resolved.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.

Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.

The planet Saturn, which represents anatomy, is the skeleton: It is a rigid structure upon which the rest of the body is built. To what moral qualities does this correspond? The first point of virtue in a bone is its rigidity, its resistance to pressure.

Are human beings so much more worthy and better than we are, that they are allowed to take advantage of so many cruel privileges with impunity?

Edel, kötülük etmeyecek erkekler yapma imkan? var m?? Tanr? da, bir an bunu kendine sormuÅŸ olmal?. Bilmiyorum. Ama denerim.

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.