Quotes About Morality

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

At heart, I've always been a pretty little moralist. Private investigation is just my way of acting out.

It's been my observation, after years in the business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it

I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.

There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.

influenced, and I'd be corrupting his

Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.

Si no hablamos del mal, ¿cómo comprenderemos qué es el bien?

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life.

I saw then what I hadn't seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous masses, but in the concrete, intimate flesh of the girl beside me, I'd lost the ability to be repulsed by it. I'd grown comfortable with the particulars of evil. There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.

I am the whore and the holy woman I am the wife and the virgin

I saw then what I hadn't seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous masses, but in the concrete, intimate flesh of the girl beside me, I'd lost the ability to be repulsed by it. I'd grown comfortable with the particulars of evil.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Such

Everything I knew about rape I'd learned from the Scriptures.

He gazed at me with kindness and pity. "To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

he quoted a scripture from Ephesians, reciting from memory. "Slaves, be obedient to them that are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ." Then he made what many, including my mother, would call the most eloquent extemporization on slavery they'd ever heard. "Slaves, I admonish you to be content with your lot, for it is the will of God! Your obedience is mandated by scripture. It is commanded by God through Moses.

He gazed at me with kindness and pity. "To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil." I turned

Was it ever right to sacrifice one's truth for expedience?

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

There was Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, who was raped by Shechem. Tamar, the daughter of King David, raped by her half brother.

No one had avenged the unnamed concubine. Jacob did not seek vengeance on Shechem. King David did not punish his son.

are." I had begun to feel the same way. When a student from Class 1 said, openly and unashamedly, that the unfortunate thing about losing the trivia game was that they had been caught cheating and should have cheated better, I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing. Perhaps they felt free to continue doing it as long as they could get away with it. Was

I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing.