Quotes About Morality

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

SUTRA #10 As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.

If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.