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Quotes about morality
Morality is a private and costly luxury. (Harry Debbie)
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. (Harry Debbie)
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. (Harry Debbie)
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. (Harry Debbie)
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. (Harry Debbie)
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. (Harry Debbie)
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. (Harry Debbie)
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion. (Harry Debbie)
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. (Harry Debbie)
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. (Harry Debbie)
I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them. (Harry Debbie)
The higher the building the lower the morals. (Harry Debbie)
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. (Harry Debbie)
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. (Harry Debbie)
A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable. (Harry Debbie)
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. (Harry Debbie)
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. (Harry Debbie)
We moralize among ruins. (Harry Debbie)
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. (Harry Debbie)
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality. (Harry Debbie)
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. (Harry Debbie)
A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. (Harry Debbie)
It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong. (Harry Debbie)
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. (Harry Debbie)
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. (Harry Debbie)
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