Quotes About Morality

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity" Ch.2, 8

For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education

This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief

And therefore the punishment of those who would not follow him, was to lose their souls, i. e. their lives

Whether there be any such moral principles, wherein all men do agree, I appeal to any who have been but moderately conversant in the history of mankind, and looked abroad beyond the smoke of their own chimneys.

govern his actions according to the dictates of the law of reason which God had implanted in him.

Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free : for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under that law:

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

Is it not far better to abhor sins by the remembrance of others' faults, than by repentance of thine own follies?

Huxley did not look the warrior. But he had a warrior's ruthlessness. His dicta included the pronouncement: "The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

God left all men free; Nature has made no man a slave.' (Anonymous, in Rhetorica Aristotelis, CAG XXI: 2, p. 74 Rabe) This, remarkably, is the only surviving testimony to what must have been a fairly widespread sophistic thesis, that slavery is contrary to nature (referred to disapprovingly by Aristotle at Politics 1253b20ff.).

Pero la libertad humana sí existe y es importante para la responsabilidad ética. Cuando Dios juzga las obras humanas, a veces toma en consideración lo que somos capaces y lo que no somos capaces de hacer. En Lucas 12:47-48 leemos:

Lo mismo es cierto de la ética. Por ejemplo, la Biblia no menciona el aborto. Necesitamos aprender lo que es el aborto de fuentes extrabíblicas. Las Escrituras dicen algunas cosas acerca del asesinato y acerca de la vida humana antes de nacer. Cuando unimos los principios bíblicos con nuestro conocimiento extrabíblico de lo que es el aborto, llega a ser obvio que "no matarás" implica "no abortarás".

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

I tipped young Hylas with a sesterce and turned away discreetly while he disposed of it somewhere about his person. Slaves, especially small ones, must resort to certain subterfuges in order to prevent larger slaves from acquiring their wealth, and it is often inadvisable to wonder too much about where our money has been.

One forced to live in surroundings that might have been devised by Plato must seek relief and an outlet for the human urges despised by philosophers. Wickedness and debauchery may not be the only answers, but they are certainly the ones with the widest appeal.