Quotes About Morality

William didn't believe in God, but he did believe in Bridget's love for God. It was a manifestation of her love of goodness, and William could believe in goodness. He saw it in her. He loved it in her. If

I had a strict No Assholes policy, and I'd never met a cheater of either sex who wasn't some stripe of asshole underneath the He doesn't understand mes and the We drifted aparts and the She won't do that thing I need in beds

Burr had to know I understood what I had done. I knew you couldn't kill only the pieces that needed killing, and leave the pretty parts whole.

Among mankind's greatest faults is his a) kindness, b) generosity, c) fortitude, d) contentment, e) vanity. That was debatable. But the Pythagorean theorem was not, and if the civilian Uri was one side and the soldier Uri was the other, the true him was the hypotenuse, slanted opposite, the squared sum of both.

However, the outcome is inconsistent with the general principle that people should not be punished in the absence of culpability, since one who acts on the basis of a reasonable mistake of law lacks moral blameworthiness.

Freedom of religion in America is all fine and good until you start believing in nothing, and then it is a crime to be punished.' " "Is

Our moral foundation is built on the fundamental law that God (if there is a God, which there is not) would not wish to be worshipped in the perverted and misconceived ways of human beings, with their righteous violence and prejudices and hypocrisies. Doubt, or cease being moral.

Where was I when I lied? I mean the essential me, the self I knew and was proud of, the straight talker, advocate of truth and destroyer of illusions? Nowhere to be found.

And the fact that heroism occurred alongside negative behaviors, that it flourished in spite of base human nature, makes it all the more affecting and powerful.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

Freedom was an illusion even when one's instincts were good.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they will love forever.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

And isn't it amazing that suicide is illegal when society is so indifferent to human life?

The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart. —The 14th Dalai Lama

El traje de luces que cubre sus ideas políticas permite ver con claridad hacia qué lado carga. Lo cual no le impide distinguir el bien del mal, o reconocer con claridad cuando un edificio tiene los cimientos repletos de fantasmas.

Cuando hacer lo correcto causa daño, quizás haya que buscar otro camino.

Mientras tanto lo que se percibe en sus diarios (de Tolstói) es un hombre dividido: por un lado, lleno de certezas sobre la religión, sobre los defectos de la mujer (la culpa a de todos los desgarres del mundo contemporáneo), sobre la cultura (que sólo florece, decía, cuando no hay moral). Y, por el otro, lleno de dudas.

El seductor e insondable camino de la impureza. Quizás sólo por él se puede llegar a la pureza.

Todo lo necesario para el triunfo del mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada