Quotes About Morality

If God does have good reasons for his commandments, why don't we appeal to those reasons directly and skip the middleman?

And so they opened the door to the idea that in the name of future peace, any and all means might be justified—including even exterminatory war."108 Kant himself despised this turn, noting that such a war "would allow perpetual peace only upon the graveyard of the whole human race." And the American framers, equally aware of the crooked timber of humanity, were positively phobic about the prospect of imperial or messianic leaders.

Sensing the necessity to be wise and honest in order to succeed, he flees vice, or at least his demeanor exhibits decency and seriousness so as not to arouse any adverse judgment on the part of present and future acquaintances

The moral sense sanctifies a set of norms and taboos that govern the interactions among people in a culture, sometimes in ways that decrease violence, though often (when the norms are tribal, authoritarian, or puritanical) in ways that increase it.

As soon as we recognize that there is nothing morally commendable about the products of evolution, we can describe human psychology honestly, without the fear that identifying a "natural" trait is the same as condoning it.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

Sincerity is the way of heaven.

Love God, and do what you like.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.