Quotes About Morality

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

Le pire aspect matériel, et surtout moral, de la société néo-industrielle, ce n'est pas le travail, mais l'industrie lourde du loisir. Une dés-organisation des loisirs permettrait entre autres de sortir de l'impasse d'un développement touristique qui çà et là tourne au pandémonium. En effet, si les gens trouvaient chez eux ce qu'ils cherchent en vain toujours plus loin, une bonne partie d'entre eux ne cèderaient pas à la panique estivale.

DeVoto himself had clearly concluded, go with your gut and do what you know is right: do whatever you can to make the world a better place for those who come after you.

Ultimately, however, there is no absolute good or bad, no timeless right or wrong, only that which does or does not advance our (i.e. God's) existential purpose. Rules of proper behavior depend upon time and place, because the consequences of the things we do largely depend on the context in which they are done. Consider how the sex act can be a crime or a consummation of love, depending solely on the context in which it is performed.

How could this happen in a beautiful place like Glen Ridge? What made a bunch of friendly, likeable boys, boys from fine families, boys with every imaginable advantage, do such a thing?

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

Private Vices, Public Benefits.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

private vice can be publicly beneficial

Si un marchand pouvait éteindre les étoiles pour que ses panneaux publicitaires se voient mieux dans la nuit, peut-être le ferait-il.

To know the difference between erotica and pornography you must first know the difference between naked and nude.

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.

Kannibalism on patt, kui sööja teab, mida sööb.

Le péché vaut mieux que l'hypocrisie.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'on est pauvre qu'on est vertueux, et ce n'est pas parce qu'on est riche qu'on est égoïste.

Utilitarians are often immensely conscientious people, who work for humanity and give up meat for the sake of the animals. They think this is what they morally ought to do and feel guilty if they do not live up to their own standard. They do not, and perhaps could not, ask: How useful is it that I think and feel like this?

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate

That an action would be cowardly is not often found by an agent to be a consideration in its favor, but it could be, and in a counterethical way, ministering to a masochism of shame.

The trouble with religious morality comes not from morality's being inescapably pure, but from religion's being incurably unintelligible.

it's so crazy that the disgusting perma-tanned billionaire has set a new intellectual and moral low by being president of America and basically it all means that the older generation has RUINED EVERYTHING and her generation is doooooomed

According to related studies, "fear-based" staff management techniques engender a hostile atmosphere, which in turn arouses fierce competition and seriously impairs moral values.

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