Quotes About Morality

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts—if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

Now, here's a philosophical dilemma for a vicar … is it a lie if you don't know you're lying? Is it a lie if you're lying to yourself?" "Is it a sin if I tell my cousin to bugger off?

Would I cheat to save my soul? No. But to save my G.P.A.? Yes.

The first time she slit a man's throat she felt sick to her stomach. The second time? Not so much.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it." PLATO, GORGIAS

Abhor that which is evil; Cleave to that which is good.

Evil is the man who has known honor and discarded it.

had made them stop. "Did they throw stones at the man who spit in his drink?" Judith wanted to know.

Hate the sin, not the sinner.

But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth?

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

But then, if you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone's got to.

Her kind will tell you there is no black and white, only shadows. That any way can be wrong or right, that good and evil are two sides of the same coin. Believe her if you will. Perhaps she tells the truth

Too much power made people arrogant and unfeeling. It turned them cruel. It blinded them to right and wrong.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light, save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

If you forget what's bad, cruel, unjust, you might not care anymore about setting things to rights. You might stop standing up against the folk who do evil deeds. And someone's got to.

I do not agree with the view that to be moral, the motive of one's action has to be benefiting others. Morality does not have to be defined in relation to others … People like me want to … satisfy our hearts to the full, and in doing so we automatically have the most valuable moral codes. Of course there are people and objects in the world, but they are all there only for me.

Apesar de sua vida ter sido de sofrimento e angústia, suas histórias nunca foram insuportáveis nem deprimentes. Tinham alicerces numa força moral que era o tempo todo alentadora.

Wisdom is an ethics of knowledge

Por otro lado, los criminales producen, según la circunstancia, impresiones morales o trágicas, cultivando así el sentido estético del pueblo. De esta manera, los criminales ofrecen tanto diversiones como actividades artísticas en una sociedad cada vez más monótona.

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.