Quotes About Morality

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.

It may be expedient but it is not just that some should have less in order that others may prosper.

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moral order arises in some way from human nature itself and from the requirements of our living together in society.

El resultado es que con frecuencia parecemos obligados a escoger entre el utilitarismo y el intuicionismo.

There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig

Humans are supposed to be better than that! I'm embarrassed for my whole damned species.

Animals do not 'give' their life to us, as the sugar-coated lie would have it. No, we take their lives. They struggle and fight to the last breath, just as we would do if we were in their place.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Taste… is the only morality…. Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

Preachers say: do as I say, not what I do

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Old proverb says, That bird is not honest That filleth his own nest.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

For truthfully, Your Honors, if a man can love his daughter and she love him in return, with honesty and restraint, then what act, what station, can we aspire to . . . that would be more civilized than that?