Quotes About Morality

Casi siempre duele cuando haces lo correcto [...]Cuando hacer lo correcto causa daño, quizás haya que buscar otro camino.

La vida es un don precioso, muchacho. Es lo único que no debes robar jamás.

Los vendedores hurtan en los pesos y trucan las balanzas, los reyes inventan impuestos y los curas pecados por los que darles limosna.

Sin haber crecido en un entorno católico preconciliar donde la culpa aparece antes que el pecado.

La niña aprendió pronto una importante lección: que pobre no significa bueno, y que la generosidad entre los ladrones y los desfavorecidos es tan escasa como entre las personas con más suerte. Intentaron robarle muchas veces, procuraron hacerle cosas peores muchas otras. No siempre pudo evitarlo.

Lo único necesario para el triunfo del mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada».

Resulta, en verdad, muy expresivo del eclipse de conciencia de nuestra época que, a medida que se desprotege a los seres humanos más desvalidos, se convierta a los animales en sujetos de protección jurídica

Is that what you think this is about? Your letting me die? I don't know what clouds your judgement worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why... Why on God's earth--??! Is he still alive!!??

The same generation that believed premarital sex was a sin thought it was perfectly fine to send their young people off to die in a senseless war.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

she has come to the conclusion that a certain amount of lying, like the priming of a pump, is necessary to keep life going. Absolute honesty would bring everything to a shattering halt.

There's a fine line between criminality and genius." -Dan Cahill

Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.

Any power (light, dark, masculine, feminine) may be used for good or evil; it is how it is used that affects the outcome. The power in itself is neutral.

Az ? korában, akárcsak a miénkben, az érzelmeket jelentéssel ruházták fel, de míg a huszadik században az érzelmeket a tapasztalás eredményének, a küls? események végs?, lelki termékének tekintjük, a tizenhetedik században ezek önmagukban jelentettek tapasztalást; az érzelmek adtak értelmet és formát a történéseknek, és ezek igazolták az erkölcsi igazságokat.

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals -- only of his rights.

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.

Because it has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.

It has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.

Integrity is what you do when no one is looking. LIVING YOUR YOGA: To practice yoga, telling the truth is not enough. We need to practice not lying. Today live with integrity by not lying to yourself about one important thing in your life.

Of all human sins, the only one Anabel really found unforgivable was unkindness.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

If there is a God, why would anyone of good sense want to deal with such a second-rate being as the Devil?