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Quotes About Morality

A medida que crezcas, verás a los blancos estafando a los negros, todos los días de tu vida, pero te diré una cosa, y no la olvides: siempre que un hombre blanco abusa de un negro, no importa quién sea, ni cuán rico sea, ni cuán distinguida haya sido la familia de que procede, ese hombre blanco es basura.
~ Harper Lee
Atticus says that you can't punish the children for the father's faults.
~ Harper Lee
Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!
~ Harper Lee
not long ago, Atticus would have done it simply from his goodness, he would have done it for Cal.
~ Harper Lee
You are using frightful means to justify ends that you think are for the good of the most people. Your ends may well be right—I think I believe in the same ends—but you cannot use people as your pawns, Atticus. You cannot.
~ Harper Lee
Atticus—" said Jem bleakly. He turned in the doorway. "What, son?" "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep. Good night." But
~ Harper Lee
Los hombres tienen tendencia a clasificar su honradez por casilleros, Jean Louise. Pueden ser perfectamente honestos en ciertos aspectos y engañarse a sí mismos en otros.
~ Harper Lee
You folks might be better than the Cunninghams, but it doesn't count for nothing the way you're disgracing them.
~ Harper Lee
Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . . ." "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.
~ Harper Lee
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ´em, but remember it´s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
~ Harper Lee
sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of oh, of your father
~ Harper Lee
ÇoÄŸunluÄŸa baÄŸl? olmayan tek ÅŸey insan?n vicdan?d?r.
~ Harper Lee
Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' ?To Kill a Mockingbird?
~ Harper Lee
Everyman's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such things as a collective conscious. / You never saw him as a man with a man's heart, and a man's failings - I'll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes 'em like all of us. ?Go Set a Watchman?
~ Harper Lee
It's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Mockingbirds do nothing but bring pleasure with their singing and thus to kill them is unjustifiable.
~ Harper Lee
We're all of us going to hell, it's just a question of time.
~ Harper Lee
Oni, naravno, imaju pravo da tako misle i zaslužuju poštovanje zbog svojih stajališta," rekao je Atticus, "ali prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram mo?i živjeti sam sa sobom. Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovanjem ve?ine.
~ Harper Lee
Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I'm not. I'm something else and I don't know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me -- these same, these very people. So it's me, it's not them. Something has happened to me.
~ Harper Lee
Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on. H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.
~ Harper Lee
You can shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit them. But remember, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
~ Harper Lee
Vienintelis dalykas, kuris nepriklauso nuo daugumos, yra žmogaus s?žin?.
~ Harper Lee
That was the only time I heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something. So I asked Miss Maudie about it. Your father's right, she said. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
~ Harper Lee
Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up peoples gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
~ Harper Lee
The bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of one man
~ Harper Lee