Quotes About Morality

A metaphysics is a great help in rationalizing scruple-driven behavior.

When defects of character are your character, you become a what.

I don't know exactly what covetise is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

I felt just the way I imagine the shade of poor old Samuel must have felt when the witch dragged him up from Sheol. Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? In fact, I had spent the morning darkness praying for the wisdom to do well by John Ames Boughton, and then when he woke me, I was immediately aware that my sullen old reptilian self would have handed him over to the Philistines for the sake of a few more minutes' sleep.

It offends my conscience to bear witness against him.

Americans' treatment of the Negro indicated a lack of religious seriousness.

The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something. But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never know what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spare the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man

he sells the souls in his keeping to the devil.

Pope Alexander smiled. He seemed more amused with the story than horrified. The Baglioni are true believers, he said. They believe in paradise. Such a great gift. How otherwise can man bear this moral life? Unfortunately, such a belief also gives evil men the courage to commit great crimes in the name of good and God.

He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.

The Don sighed. "Well, then I can't talk to you about how you should behave. Don't you want to finish school, don't you want to be a lawyer? Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

I asked god for a bike, but i know god doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward.

My only business is to save souls in danger of hell. What a man does is his own business.

A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.

Bet, ak vai, cik ?auna bija pasaule, kas lika cilv?kam gr?kot.

jak w?a?ciwie nale?a?o ?y? - szcz??liwie czy moralnie?

La verdad, había en ella algo que era imposible no admirar, por esas razones que nos llevan a apreciar las obras bien hechas, aunque sean perversas.

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.