Quotes About Morality

If I can't love Hitler, I can't love at all.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.

I love the idea of rectitude.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

How can something so wrong feel so right?

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

loving your neighbour as yourself." The first lesson was that neither of these statements has anything to do with being nice. The second was that both are equations, rather than injunctions. If I am someone's friend, family member, or lover, then I am morally obliged to bargain as hard on my own behalf as they are on theirs. If I fail to do so, I will end up a slave, and the other person a tyrant. What good is that?

But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there's nothing freeing about that.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgments about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these too are relative). Thus relativism's closest approximation to "virtue" is "tolerance.

There are no innocuous ideologies. They're forms of pathological over simplification and they're also clubs, I mean the kind of clubs that you hit people with as well as the kind that you belong to... the advantage (to me) of being an ideologue is that I can explain everything, I can feel morally superior, and I know who my enemies are...and you know what you're supposed to do with enemies? They're not your friends, you move against them.

The moral of the story? Beware of intellectuals who make a monotheism out of their theories of motivation.