Quotes about Ethics

Murder and adultery are great crimes.

If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which would be a lie.

Morality flows from metaphysics because goodness flows from God.

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.

Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That's why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens than moral relativists and subjectivists: they have stronger motives for obedience.

we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.

4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.

why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside

Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!