Quotes About Morality

Young womens no good these days, he say. Got they legs open to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

Why should the killers of the world be the future and not us?

that human compassion is equal to human cruelty and that it is up to each of us to tip the balance. I

Nobody feel better for killing nothing. They feel something is all.

Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.

Was I right? she asked him. Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in my conscience.

We always hear about the scandals of the few, but what of the goodness of the majority?

What is obscenity? And to whom?

week old infants, ward-bound juveniles with epilepsy, or those with profound retardation in his experiments. Involuntary, nontherapeutic, and dangerous experiments on children were far from unusual or dishonourable endeavours during the twentieth century. The practice was widely accepted, rarely questioned and integral to the phenomenal growth of medical research and human experimentation during World War II and the Cold War that followed.

I was surrounded by people. A hundred men, some women, my brother, Ernesto. No one did anything as the man pulled my pants down. No one intervened—not even God—as

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: 'For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.    ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.

BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market—the fine ones on top—have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman.

Hypocrite, n. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Every murder proves that hanging is not altogether deterrent; every hanging, that it is somewhat deterrent—it deters the person hanged.