Quotes About Morality

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.

Injustice, they say, can only emanate from three causes: want of wisdom to perceive what is just, want of benevolence to desire, want of power to fulfill it; and that each of these three wants is incompatible in the All-Wise, the All-Good, the All-Powerful.

Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?

However, he initially saw no moral issue with Falkland and dismissed any criticism of the work as faux outrage and contended that he was content to attract readers to his works by any means, including controversy. Leslie George Mitchell states that Bulwer-Lytton, or just Bulwer as he was known at that time, considered his poetry to be his finest work and wished to increase its readership through his novel writing and reputation.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

the moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we've traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition.

All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.

The wise and moral manShines like a fire on a hilltop,Making money like the bee,Who does not hurt the flower.

Your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

I don't eat people,I won't eat people,I don't eat people,Eating people is wrong!

You don't make up for your sins in church, you do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

The law locks up both man and womanWho steals the goose from off the common,But lets the greater felon looseWho steals the common from the goose.

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.And, behold, I come quickly.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection.

Avoid what is evil; do what is good; purify the mind—this is the teaching of the Awakened One [Buddha].

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.

Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship. With few desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at will.