Quotes About Morality

No sistema aristotélico, a ética é um fator relativamente pouco importante. O cristianismo, entretanto, com a condenação do pecado e o apelo à retidão dá forte ênfase à moral. Não obstante, a ética não é a base do sistema cristão. A teologia é mais fundamental, pois a ética depende de Deus.

Justice and fairness aren't just part of the social studies curriculum, you know. They're the building blocks of our entire society.

It seems like cheating somehow, breaking some overarching Law of the Way Things Are Supposed to Be.

You have duplicated four of the worst people in human history, and unleashed them on the world!

Amy took in the inspired look on her brother's face. "That's stealing!" Dan

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Tutti sono bisessuali, disse l'uomo dai capelli grigi. La società, il condizionamento precoce, la buona o la cattiva sorte - dipende da come ci è stato detto di considerarla - determinano il risultato. Nulla è 'giusto'. Solo la negazione dell'istinto è sbagliata.

A year later, Ayatollah Bennett declared, "I find no merit in the [drug] legalizers' case. The simple fact is that drug use is wrong. And the moral argument, in the end, is the most compelling argument." Of course, what this dangerous comedian thinks is moral James Madison and the Virginia statesman and Rights-man George Mason would have thought dangerous nonsense, particularly when his "morality" abolishes their gift to all of us, the Bill of Rights.

Wer überlegt, der sucht Bewegungsgründe, nicht zu dürfen.

Warum sind wir zu gewissen Tugenden bei einem gesunden und seine Kräfte fühlenden Körper weniger, als bei einem siechen und abgematteten aufgelegt?

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization - it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause.

He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.