Quotes about Morality

Evil is the absence of God.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.

But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.

The Lord's Prayer is less than fifty words long, and six of those words are devoted to asking God not to lead us into temptation.

I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

The untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic, that what he wants is what God wants, that his cause is the cause of whatever he may happen to regard as the True Church and that any compromise is a metaphysical Munich, an appeasement of Radical Evil.