Quotes About Morality

She was only a prostitute, but she had the nicest face I ever came across.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

You know what these "God Bless America" people oughta do? They oughta check with that Jesus fellow they're so crazy about. They're always talking about "What would Jesus do?" They don't wanna know so they can do it – they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it!

Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.

But I wasn't worth doing wrong for---- nothing is in this world. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.

They are always wanting reasons, yet they are too ignorant to understand the merits of any question, and usually fall back on their moral sense to settle things after their own taste. Evidently

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of divine power against evil- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves:

But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God's plan in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears. A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the universe.

all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.

Indeed we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Observing these people narrowly, even when the iron hand of misfortune has shaken them from their unquestioning hold on the world, one sees little trace of religion, still less of a distinctively Christian creed. Their belief in the unseen, so far as it manifests itself at all, seems to be rather of a pagan kind; their moral notions, though held with strong tenacity, seem to have no standard beyond hereditary custom.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

we are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us

I hold it a crime to expose a man's sin unless I'm clear it must be done to save the innocent

porque nada me dá mais a volta às tripas do que um homem que prega a sua religião sem dar descanso a ninguém e que apregoa que os dez mandamentos para ele não chegam, ao mesmo tempo que é pior do que metade dos que estão no degredo.