Quotes About Morality

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

Love is much more demanding than law.

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.