Quotes About Morality

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Who are they" "Fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved, nor bad enough to be lost" say the peasantry.

And what if I think you're doing this out of misguided sense of decency?" "Oh, any sense of decency I possess is most definitely misguided," he said cheerfully.

She had not yet decided whether to use her power for good...or for evil.

Hazel shrugged. She heard Bobby's voice in her head and wondered why it was she who was not allowed to hurt anyone.

Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness," he said. "It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.

People want the individuals from the past they admire to be "right" on the question of race—no matter how wrong they actually were—so that admiring such people poses no problem. The difficulty is that not many European-Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were what we would consider to be "right" on the question of race, which, at a minimum, requires believing in the equal humanity of African Americans.

I don't adhere to the idea that you don't make moral judgments. I think history is a moral profession. We don't just look back and say, oh, and here is how they slaughtered the innocents, and go move on.

When you are trying to live the life of the Spirit, you will try to be pure. You do well, but why? In order that you may be pure, and leave your impure brethren in their impurity? Oh no! You must try to be pure, in order that there may be more purity in the world to share amongst all men.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

How would you learn right if you knew not wrong? How would you choose good if you knew not evil? How would you recognise the light if there were no darkness? How would you move if there were no resistance?

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

Thought creates character.

A thief is a thief is a thief.

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

Today smugglers are vilified and pursued like abortionists were thirty years ago. No one questions the laws and world order that condone their existence. Yet surely, among those who trade in refugees, as among those who once traded in foetuses, there must be some sense of honor.

Me ha parecido que la escritura debería tender a esto, a esta impresión que provoca la escena del acto sexual, a esta angustia y a este estupor, a una suspensión del juicio moral.

Je n'estimais pas que Jean T. m'avait traitée avec mépris. Pour lui, j'étais passée de la catégorie des filles dont on ne sait pas si elles acceptent de coucher à celle des filles qui, de façon indubitable, ont déjà couché.

Et, comme d'habitude, il était impossible de déterminer si l'avortement était interdit parce que c'était mal, ou si c'était mal parce que c'était interdit. On jugeait par rapport à la loi, on ne jugeait pas la loi.

La representación de la sociedad se atomizaba en «temas», prioritariamente sexuales, el intercambio de parejas, los transexuales, el incesto, la pedofilia y el topless en las playas, a favor o en contra, ponían ante la vista de la gente hechos y conductas que en general nunca habían probado personalmente y que, los aprobaran o los rechazaran, creían extendidos por todas partes, cuando no convertidos en norma.

Como toda lengua, esa también jerarquizaba, estigmatizaba, a los vagos, a las mujeres casquivanas, a los «sátiros» y los malvados, a los niños malcriados, alababa a las

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '