1,889 Quotes About Morality

As far as morality is concerned: a person can set standards for themselves, but not for other people.

He who is inclined to lust is merciful and tender-hearted; those who are inclined to purity are not so' (Saint John Climacus). It took a saint, neither more nor less, to denounce so distinctly and so vigorously not the lies but the very essence of Christian morality, and indeed of all morality.

A great deal of undigested morality is uttered to the world, under the disguise of a pretended public virtue. In the eye of reason, the man who deliberately and voluntarily contracts civil engagements is more strictly bound to their fulfilment, than he whose whole obligations consist of an accident over which he had not the smallest control, that of birth ; though the very reverse of this is usually maintained undei the influence of popular prejudice.

Morality is relevant only to the extent that the ideal has not been realized, but there is no room at all for morality in the ideal itself, just as there is no room for revolution in the ideal which inspires revolutionary action

America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude.

I do not find human nature either wicked or good, I find it driven forward by the same inevitable laws as the tides and the constellations

He llegado a entender la verdad de todas las religiones del mundo: Ellas luchando con la maldad dentro de un ser humano (dentro de cada ser humano).Es imposible expulsar de este mundo a la maldad, pero es posible constreñirla dentro de cada persona.

Once you surrender to the universe, everything you do will take you nearer to liberation, nearer to God. That alone is good Karma for you. There is no absolute list of good and bad Karmas.

In reality, once one overcomes the propaganda of the twentieth-century state, there is no such thing as a victimless crime. If an action has no victims, it is no crime, regardless of what some self-important voters or bureaucrats would like to believe about their prerogative to legislate morality for others.