Quotes about Morality

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.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are.

There was something called Christianity.

For the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.'" "Who said that?" "The man who invented Christianity—St. Paul.