Morality – Quotes

Morality, too, is a

Morality, too, is a question of time. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be. G. E. M. Anscombe

Censorship may be useful

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration. G. D. H. Cole

We can hardly say

We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge … Read more

Thou shalt not bear

Thou shalt not bear false witness Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his signature on a contract. The violations of God’s laws are evidence that lying and misrepresentation are not absent from us. Ezra Taft Benson

The Church has no

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. Ezra Taft Benson

Could many of our

Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have – the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, … Read more

Fundamental accuracy of statement

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing. Ezra Pound

What I would argue

What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don’t like; it is the … Read more

Of all the lessons

Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should remember this in an age where morality seems to be disappearing and is being replaced by politics. Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle