Quotes About Morality

certainly strip him of his petty

Derfel, Derfel – sospirò Merlino. – Sei proprio uguale ad Artù. Pensi che il mondo sia semplice, che il bene sia bene e il male sia male, che l'alto sia alto e il basso sia basso.

I killed that ship's crew to save myself having to kill hundreds of other Danes." "The Lord Jesus would have wanted you to show mercy," she said, her eyes wide. She is an idiot.

I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder.

Alfred spends half his time rutting and the other half praying to his god to forgive him for rutting. How can a god disapprove of a good hump?

Being alive is bad in a Christian! We say people are saints if they're good, but how few of us become saints? We're all bad! Some of us just try to be good.

Uma das coisas que não suporto nos cristãos é sua admiração pela humildade. Imagine transformar a humildade numa virtude! Humildade! Você consegue imaginar um céu cheio somente de humildes? Que ideia pavorosa! A comida ficaria fria enquanto todo mundo ia passando os pratos uns para os outros. A humildade não é boa, Derfel. A raiva e o egoísmo são as qualidades que fazem o mundo marchar.

When you get to the Otherworld, boy' – he had turned back to me – 'you won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

The law. we are told, is what makes us men under God instead of beasts in the ditch

Buddhists have always claimed the moral high ground and attempted, with more or less success, to maintain an exigent ideal of purity. Any spiritual practice is fated to confront the obstinate realities of human existence, however.

From the outset the Buddhist tradition has been divided between the most uncompromising moral rigorism and a subversion of all ideals in the name of a higher truth, transcending good and evil. M?h?yana Buddhism, in particular, argued that the ultimate truth can be discovered only by those who awaken to the reality of desire and are able to transmute it.

Era nato buono, il che se ti capita è una virtù.

Quando un uomo è onesto dorme tranquillo. E questo vale più di cinque centesimi rubati.

Moralitatea are o mie de surse È™i nesfârÈ™ite mijloace de expresie

Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities.

Any man over forty is a scoundrel.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions--I say the most licentious of human institutions: that is the secret of its popularity.And a woman seeking a husband is the most unscrupulous of all the beasts of prey. The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Madame de la Tour occasionally read aloud some affecting history of the Old or New Testament. Her auditors reasoned but little upon these sacred volumes, for their theology centred in a feeling of devotion towards the Supreme Being, like that of nature: and their morality was an active principle, like that of the Gospel. These families had no particular days devoted to pleasure, and others to sadness. Every day was to them a holyday, and all that surrounded them one holy temple

I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both

Did my moral upbrining somehow turn against itself? If looking at someone with desire was as bad as satisfying the desire, if having an active fantasy was as bad as the act you were fantasizing- then why not the satisfaction and the act itself? As the days went on, I discovered that I couldn't stop thinking sinful thoughts. In which case I also wanted the sin itself.

Or was it a question of how the laws were actually interpreted and enforced at the time they committed their crimes, and that they were not applied to them? What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Imagine someone is racing intentionally towards his own destruction and you can save him - do you go ahead and save him?