Quotes About Morality

On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they wouldn't have had Auntie Teg and my mother, but I don't think they did it more than twice. Then there's the way they talk about sex in school and in church. And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think yes, the world would be better off without it.

Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.

She has read LOTR, and I don't know if she read it identifying with all of the evil people and hoping the good ones wouldn't resist their temptations, but I know she has read it because the first time I read it, it was her copy. This proves that just reading it isn't enough. After all, the devil can quote scripture.)

Morally, magic is just indefensible.

It's nonsense for it to be illegal," Patty said briskly. "It may be immoral and unclean because it's outside marriage, but it shouldn't be illegal. That's nonsense.

I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.

o Sujo: o que aceita as más palavras e pensamentos da gente, e que completa tudo em obra;

Crime, que sei, é fazer traição, ser ladrão de cavalos ou de gado... não cumprir a palavra...

Briguei muito mediano, não obrei injustiça nem ruindades nenhumas; nunca disso me reprovam.

because of my deep-seated opinion that war itself is a crime; that the killing of one child, the burning of one village, the dropping of one bomb sinks us into such depths of depravity that there's no use bickering over the particulars.

It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.

Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles or morality, but that cannot control our decision,' she said. 'Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five.

Dr. James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, published in 1765

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

Choices were so easy when I was a child. Good guy versus bad guy, and the good guys always won. But I'm no longer a child.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Anio?owie przekazuj? nowiny, ostrzegaj? nas i prawdopodobnie przeprowadzaj? wewn?trzne dialogi z naszym sumieniem, podszeptuj?c nam, by?my wybrali dobro zamiast z?a, i umacniaj? nas, by?my nie ulegali pokusie.

Human beings had been created with a free will that made them choose to be one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. These days, unfortunately, more and more people seemed to be taking the low road.

For even a little sin in our wellspring has the power to pollute and corrupt the very essence of who we are.

Well I don't care how other people live" I said. "If they want to let their men sleep around, that's their business. But I'll be damned if I'll put up with it. Not good enough for me, and no way I want Noah growing up thinking that's how you treat a woman. Ruger can take his offer, stick it on a fork, and shove it up his ass. Now I need to find a job and somewhere to live, because I'm sure as hell not living with him any longer.

Once a man disposes a body for you, the moral high ground has been lost.