Quotes About Morality

Capital, he said, had no conscience and no fatherland.

I was not a murderer, but I had become an unholy liar, a shameless impostor, and a highwayman with a marked taste for expensive motor-cars.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Faithful: What! why he (Shame) objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscious was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie himself up from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times."

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way

One does not become an outcast by birth, one does not become a Brahmin by birth. It is by deed that one becomes an outcast, it is by deed that one becomes a Brahmin." The

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.

Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts.

How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.

No morally imperfect human being(s), born into "the double darkness of sin and ignorance" could ever qualify for the position of Master Utilitarian Manipulator that Consequentialism needs to be put into practice.

In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. —The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 183

The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.

For as 'Wright's Ninth Rule of Writing' states, every story teaches a moral, whether intended by the author or not.

I maintain that all spirituality must be founded on moral life; but on the other hand, moral life must, so to speak, bathe itself in the ocean of contemplation. Without contemplation, the moral life would tend to degenerate into a dry and narrow humanism. Without the moral life, contemplation would be empty and degenerate into quietism.

Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.

God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely

In condemning, therefore, the vices of a father, a truly pious son will   subscribe to God's Law; and still, whatsoever he may be, will   acknowledge that he is to be honored, as being the father given him by   God.

Adam did not take away the will, but made it a slave where it was free. It is not only prone to sin, but is made subject to sin.

Hence the unskilful   rashly infer, that man did not sin by free choice.