Quotes about Morality

You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.

Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.