Quotes About Morality

Virtue and wealth seldom go together. The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men." -The Cripple

Why do people betray their brothers and eventually themselves? -The Cripple

When I see justice sold to the highest bidder I remember Tio Baldo and how he had lost. So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs--only a price.

Virtue and wealth sometimes go together.

The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men.

Es ist im strengsten Verstande wahr, daß, wie der Mensch überhaupt beschaffen ist, nicht er selbst, sondern entweder der gute oder der böse Geist in ihm handelt; und dennoch tut dies der Freiheit keinen Eintrag. Denn eben das In-sich-handeln-Lassen des guten oder bösen Prinzips ist die Folge der intelligiblen Tat, wodurch sein Wesen und Leben bestimmt ist.

And if selfishness and a lack of sexual discernment was to be judged a good enough reason to murder someone, then the death rate would surely sky-rocket.

A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

Every one likes justice in another's house,none in his own.

The mouth prays to Buddha, but the heart is full of evil

True religion is in one's heart.

Common sense tells us that as long as people exist, disease will always coexist with us. And the same holds true for our social lives — as long as there are people, there will always be those diseased people (what I mean is those ethically corrupt boneheads) living among us. During times of stability, our lives are ordinary and routine, and the peace and quiet of the monotonous everyday gradually conceals the great kindness and the horrific evil that humans are capable of.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

It seldom happens that a man, though extolled as a saint, is really without blemish; or that another, though reviled as a devil, is really without humanity.

Oddly, Leon Stover, in Robert A. Heinlein, one of the best close readers in other ways, comes away with the idea that Heinlein 'defends the traditional ethics of Christian civilisation' (p. 61) which is a hard argument to make given the amount of out-of-wedlock sex in his work and the satirisation of so much Christian practice in Stranger in a Strange Land and Job.

Whore,' he cried. Well, she was not his wife, yet she slept with him. She lived in sin. What else but a whore did that make her; and what did her whoredom make of Ben?

Doubt afflicts the good, not the bad.

She was pretty pissed at him." "Goddam fucking people," Decker muttered. "Stupid bitch. She looks the other way while he's out raping and beating up other women, but he kicks her precious poodle, and all of a sudden she decides he's a menace to society.

Kikes!" Macko spit. "I wouldn't fuck those pieces of shit if they was the last bitches on earth." Decker's eyes blurred for a split second. When they refocused, he realized his hand was on the butt of his .38.

A rape in Jewtown," Marge muttered. "I've always thought of the place as sacrosanct. Sort of like a convent. Who'd rape a nun?" "Who'd rape, period?" Decker said. "Good point.

Nor can one take an unfair attitude even towards enemies: "Let the enmity of a people[towards you] not determine you upon an unjust course; be fair, it is closer to taqw?. Quran

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

Most German perpetrators were never punished or rewarded for their behavior, but they had learned something about themselves. They know what they did or didn't do in the most morally fraught moment of their lives. They have seen themselves in extreme circumstances and, in that, they have seen their own extremes.