613 Quotes About Morals

The universe doesn't understand morals.

They say you’re always at the place you need to be.But perhaps it’s not so that we go to stay, but see to leave.

Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that the good old morals have decayed, and accuse modern culture of having led to loose living, everyone is convinced that all sexual wrongs represent a symptom of decadence peculiar to our age.

The only ethics that will effectively guide mankind are those that mankind did not create.

I have long stopped attempting to define what is right. For I have found that the quietly seductive nature of my own biases in combination with the pettiness of that which is culturally vogue can handily take that which is patently ‘wrong’ and make it appear gloriously ‘right.’ And I have found it infinitely easier to let God define all of that for me.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.