Ethics and Morality

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. J.R.R.

 

A country where men despise sex, and live for it.

 

There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honorable then politicians but less honorable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

The cause of freedom, of the defense of man’s conscience, is indivisible. By defending it in one country, we defend it everywhere in the world.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

 

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

There is always a right way and a wrong way, and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Good actions get good results in time.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

So careful of the type she seems,

 

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life,

 

Had I but served my God with half the zeal

 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot

 

Consideration like an angel came,

 

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.