morality Quotes

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

You're morally tainted if you don't treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Morality is contraband in war.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.