Quotes About Morality

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children

La coscienza è l'unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.

somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus. "Yessir

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into," murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard.

But it's okay to hate Hitler?" "It is not," he said. "It's not okay to hate anybody.

can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Fine a boy as he is, the trash won't wash out of him.

satu hal yang tidak tunduk pada mayoritas adalah nurani seseorang

That ain't right, Miss Maudie. You're the best lady I know. Miss Maudie grinned. thank you ma'am. Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin by definition. They take the bible literally, you know.

Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" I asked him that evening. "Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it?" said Atticus. "That proves something —that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children . . . you children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough.

Y Atticus le dijo un día a Jem: - Preferiría que disparaseis contra botes vacíos en el patio trasero, pero sé que perseguiréis a los pájaros. Matad todos los arrendajos azules que queráis, si podéis darles, pero recordad que matar a un ruiseñor es pecado (p.136)

pero se que perseguiréis a los pájaros. Mata a todos los arrendajos azules que queréis, si podéis darles, pero recordad que matar a un ruiseñor es pecado.

Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovima ve?ine.

You are too young to understand it.-she said, -but sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh,of your faher.

the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right—

Prima di vivere con gli altri, bisogna che viva con me stesso: la coscienza è l'unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.

Ustedes saben la verdad, y la verdad es que algunos negros mienten, algunos negros son inmorales, algunos negros no merecen la confianza de estar cerca de las mujeres... blancas o negras. Pero ésta es una verdad que se aplica a toda la especie humana y no a una raza particular de hombres.

Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.

you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

cómo puedes vivir con tu conciencia? —Es relativamente fácil. Simplemente, a veces no voto según mis convicciones, eso es todo. —Hank