Quotes about Morality

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.

Wickedness is weakness.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.

Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.

And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness that we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?