Quotes about Morality

You can commit injustice by doing nothing.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.