Quotes About Morality

When you have never done a thing before and that thing is not simply and clearly right or wrong, you frequently do not know if it is a cruel thing, you just go ahead and do it. Maybe later you'll be able to determine whether you acted cruelly. Too late, of course, but at least you'll know.

Of all the animals on this planet, we are surely the nastiest, the most deceitful, the most murderous and vile. Despite our God, or because of him. Both.

own. You cannot trust a man in your family that is not true to his own wife. You cannot trust a man in the world that does not begin with his own heart, his own character, and his own life.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

Because "we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue" — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — "we will seek out the imagery of vice.

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

Worse still, what future have a people whose schooling has enabled them, at best, to ascertain the price of everything—but the value of nothing?

Roepke was no apologist for an abstraction called "capitalism"—a Marxist term, incidentally, foolishly pinned to themselves by numerous vainglorious champions of economic competition. He knew that the worship of Mammon is damnable.

Most men and women are good only from habit, or out of deference to the opinions of their neighbors, the friend to tradition argues; and to deprive them of their habits, customs, and precepts, in order to benefit them in some novel way, may leave them morally and socially adrift, more harmed by their loss of ethical sanctions than helped by the fancied new benefit.

With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back.

With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back.

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.

I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?

I kill, therefore I am.

In fact, Saint Maxwell's received, and often accepted, applications from preschoolers slated to die criminal deaths. It was just a question of, well, the quality of the crime. You let in the cocaine overdoses; you kept out the crack overdoses.

Obeying an unjust law is itself unjust.

About Life: There's no such thing as a fair and easy life, tragic but true. All you can do is be a good person, do the right thing, try your hardest, never give up, hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.

Before you harm life, you need a just cause.

Being just may not always be easy but it's always required.

Earn your money in just ways and always be responsible with it.

Engross what is just, repudiate what is unjust.

Everything you do in life should be done as just as possible.

Evil has no charm, because justice has it all.

Evil offends justice and justice upsets evil.