Quotes About Morality

Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with mean mind

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous with a mean mind.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong

French economist/philosopher Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) gave a test for immoral government acts: "See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.

Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing so. But I caution them with some examples. An orthopedist profits from your misfortune of having broken your leg skiing. When there's news of a pending ice storm, I doubt whether it saddens the hearts of those in the collision repair business. I also tell my students that I profit from their misfortune—their ignorance of economic theory.

Gilmour had to laugh. He's a cop, he thought, for the same reason that I am. He's a cop because, every once in awhile, he got to put a bad guy away. Forever. After

Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric. William Green's mother convinced her owner ("she having nursed him when a child") to sell her son in the neighborhood rather than to a slave trader.

Lucky Cowboy and his clean hands. By chance you had a talent somebody wanted, and now you're able to afford principles. Good for you.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim by which it is followed in the Sermon on the Mount -- 'this is the Law and the Prophets' -- makes little sense.

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarassment?

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

That's the reward for your good deed,' I explained, 'a clear conscience. It really perks you up.

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

la ambición desmedida reivindica que "el fin justifica los medios" y obviamente, suele apartarse de la honestidad y el juego limpio. No hay que ganar a cualquier costo, no todo vale.

Con el amor pasional no basta. Se necesita un amor que además de murciélagos en el estómago, sea justo, ético y digno, porque el amor sentimental -per se- no conlleva estas virtudes.