Quotes About Morality

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

Love the neighbor. But don't get caught.

If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

Sony-ils tous (...) criminels s'ils en avaient l'occasion, innocents seulement par impuisance, et prets a se servir du mal pour accomplir leur ambition? (...) La nature humaine est-elle si detestable, ou bien est-ce la royaute qui nous rend ainsi?

Even when we are punished for the wrong reasons, there is always a real cause for our punishment. Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

Nous autres banquiers nous sommes un peu comme les prêtres, Monseigneur. Vous confessez les âmes ; nous confessons les bourses, et sommes nous aussi tenus au secret.

So, yeah—I suppose I've done some bad things in my life. But I just can't see myself as a fucking pornographer.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981. Section 5, Grave 40-2, Arlington National Cemetery.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion." Gerald R. Ford

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981.