Quotes About Morality

Am I hypnotized, fascinated by evil because I have none in me? Or is there in me the greatest evil?

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

Mon but n'est pas de penser neuf mais de penser juste.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.

Amas lo inhumano.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Desire, I thought, belonged to man; it reassured me not to admit that women could experience similar ones unless she were a woman of easy virtue.

Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other words, as a product of external constraint: what the child cannot do on his own because he has no instinct for it "others have to do … for him," and in this way "one generation educates the next.

If my father had been working at the 7-Eleven in Wyoming last night, what would he have done? Would he have gone for Elroy's vital-organ zones? Or would he have aimed for his elbows, knees, and shoulders?

I seek the crucial region of the soul where absolute Evil and fraternity clash.

Kelson winced. "We lost seven good men in the last fight." "Good men die the same as bad ones," Storm said. "Maybe more often. They'll risk more to do what's right.

Giulio was against our meeting. He didn't want me getting mixed up in things that, in his opinion, were no concern of mine. For decades the respectable people here did nothing but repeat that the Mafia was no concern of theirs but only involved the people involved in it. But I used to teach my pupils that the see-nothing, know-nothing attitude is the most mortal of sins. So now that its my turn to tell what I saw, I'm supposed to take a step back?

Social outrage is power protecting itself; it is not morality.

The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too

And yes, I mean it. A man who sticks his cock in an infant`s mouth belongs to Himmler`s circle of hell.

And as always, it is surprisingly small, as the voice of the conscience is said to be.

I am becoming more and more convinced that there is something wrong with the way I live. Something false about everything I do. Even when I want to do something good; I feel that it's only in order to seem a better person.

No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual freedom, when used within the boundaries of morality, is the highest good. The Constitution was written as a living testimony to this view.

because Puritanism is an insatiable vice that feeds off its own shit.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

Virtue, whatever else it means, at least means being more human; it would not be virtuous if it did not. Sin, whatever else it means, means being less human, more still, cold, proud, selfish, mean, cruel, and all the rest of it.

There is much more to apologetics than affirming the capacity of the Christian faith to make sense of things. Apologetics, we must recall, engages the mind, emotions and imagination. It appeals to beauty and morality, as much as to rationality.