Inherent Morality Quotes

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.