Quotes About Morality

We enter into no illegal turpitude until rather careful reflection has assured us of its expediency.

Then, too, he had a sort of prejudice against the way in which Florimel spent her time in seducing and murdering young men.

Rather we must seek out9 the good things peculiar to the good, and give the widest berth to the evils peculiar to evil men.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.

Rules of the House Character: Do the Right Thing Excellence: Do Your Very Best Respect: Do the Golden Rule

What was the right thing to do? Was that the best you were capable of doing? Would you want to be treated the same way if the situation were reversed?

What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves.

The massive sexual dysfunction of the contemporary Catholic Church began with Augustine.

Is it only a coincidence that the same arc of time defining this reinvigorated clerical corruption about sexuality has seen the rise of the fervently political Catholic Church crusade against abortion? It is as if the 1973 war Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court threw a lifeline to the morally discredited Catholic hierarchy.

Sexual morality, according to the Catholic Church, is all about denial of male restlessness and control of female agency. There is simply no place in this schema for a woman's autonomy.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Canadian comedian, Emo Phillips, said he used to pray every night for a bike until he realised that the Lord doesn't always work that way, so he stole one and then prayed for forgiveness.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

Honesty in itself is one of life's rarest gifts

Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

People say we are playing God. My answer is: If we don't play God, who will?

En la actual polémica, mientras nuestra sociedad se detiene en una ignorancia mojigata, haríamos bien en recordar lo mucho que hay en juego: la salud de los hambrientos y la conservación de nuestro legado más precioso, el medio ambiente.

Piety Without Virtue

WICKED is good

I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.

I watched as that kid died. In his last few seconds there was pure terror in his eyes. You can't do that. You can't do that to a person. I don't care what anybody tells me, I don't care how many people go crazy and die, I don't care if the whole shuck human race ends. Even if that was the only thing that had to happen to find the cure, I'd still be against it.