morality Quotes

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly 'saved' by reading, at least partially 'repaired' by it: made the better morally and existentially.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.