Quotes About Morality

There's something not quite Christian about it," Tony said. He sat back in his chair and looked up to where his Bible sat on the shelf. "I can't put my finger on why exactly, but it doesn't seem right for a couple of young ladies to be out there in the middle of the night, obsessing over their telescopes.

Monogamy is defined by what it is not, just as much as by what it is," I say, "We couldn't have monogamy without infidelity the same as we couldn't have sad without happy, or down without up. By fucking around in secret, within a relationship defined as monogamous, aren't I just playing the devil in monogamy's Sunday school pageant?

I believe most people are inherently good, but overcoming our nature is what separates us from the animals.

I can't tell you that. But not because I'm not willing to tell you." He looked down at the guns. A Desert Eagle and a Sig Sauer nine millimeter, and he'd killed with both of them. "When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it.

There was no law against being an asshole.

When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it.

It's not that the means corrupt the ends. It's that the ends never work, and that's why they need brutal means.

Samtidigt kan liberaliseringen av uppfostran slå över i rädsla för att lära ut normer, regler och begrepp som rätt och fel. Detta kan också vara destruktivt, även för den mentala utvecklingen, då det inte finns något för barnen att upptäcka, ingen moral att utforska och förstå.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

His eyes flashing, Leary13 evangelized on a cascade of TV shows that he was the founder of a new religion, with cannabis and LSD as its sacraments. These drugs should, he said, be given to twelve-year-olds so they can "fuck righteously14 and without guilt"—and to prove the point he gave them to his own young teenage15 children, even as they went slowly insane.16

White boasted. "Where else [but in the Bureau of Narcotics] could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage219

One day, James Williams—the former Google strategist I met—addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question: "How many of you want to live in the world you are designing?" There was a silence in the room. People looked around them. Nobody put up their hand.

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.