Quotes About Morality

It has always been possible to say The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling.

A muchos el universo les parece honrado; las gentes honestas tienen los ojos castrados. Por eso temen la obscenidad. No sienten ninguna angustia cuando oyen el grito del gallo ni cuando se pasean bajo un cielo estrellado. Cuando se entregan 'a los placeres de la carne' lo hacen a condición de que sean insípidos.

What seems to be unspeakable weakness can sometimes be just distaste for the generally accepted morality.

MORAL AMBIGUITIES constitute a fairly stable system of equilibrium

Mankind cannot remain indifferent to its monsters.

It only takes a few minutes, a few seconds, to become a murderer. Before that you're a man like any other.

I see now that there is a great deal in what Aunt Almeria says. She considers that there are terrible pitfalls in Society. Sir Richard shook his head sadly. Alas, too true! And vice, said Pen awfully. Profligacy, and extravagance, you know. I know. She picked up her knife and fork again. It must be very exciting, she said enviously.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

Evelyn says that they are all of them truly good and saintly! Indeed, he described Patience to me as an angel! Well, dearest, I wouldn't for a moment deny that that is – is most admirable, but I find saintly persons excessively uncomfortable, and I cannot live with an angel!

A Catholic family had hidden a Jewish boy from the Nazis, and had learned that the Germans had murdered the child's parents. They brought the youngster to Wojtyla and asked him to baptize the child. In contrast to Pope Pius IX and his abductions and forced baptisms of two Jewish boys, Wojtyla refused. The boy should be raised Jewish in the tradition of his parents, Wojtyla told the parents.

Others determined the morality. Others had the hatred. Others turned his work into victories. He did as he was told, expertise his trade mark. The soldier in his army.

He had all the essential attributes for high office; the morals of a politician, the Machiavellian mind of a con man, and a wife who was related to half the top brass in the force. He couldn't fail.

How could they know that a miller's not just as greedy as a hole in the ground, but as slippery as a handful of butter as well?

The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.

When you steal from somebody, you are saying to them, 'I don't respect how hard you worked for your money.' When somebody steals from you, that's what they're saying.

It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able to undermine pagan morality and the ancient institution of slavery.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

This world is always working against a sense of honor, cleanliness, integrity.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.