Quotes About Morality

She and her daughter between them killed and ate as many as ten infants.

Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective and unique. Immortality knows nothing of morality or immorality, of good or evil; it measures only work and strength; it demands from a man not purity but unity. Here, morality is nothing; intensity, all.

Tarihte bir baÅŸar?n?n ahlaki deÄŸeri asla pratik faydas?yla ölçülmez, insanl??a kal?c? bir zenginlik katanlar, insanl???n bilgisini çoÄŸalt?p yarat?c? gücünü artt?ranlard?r. syf-230

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.

War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary.

When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

Pues quien comete el mal es más desdichado en su alma que aquel que lo soporta. Lo compadezco, pero no lo odio.

Ningún orden moral puede obtenerse por la fuerza, pues toda violencia engendra inevitablemente violencia.

goodness and truth have never yet succeeded in curing humanity or even a single human being.

on peut tout fuir, sauf sa conscience.

Het is goedkoop als wij, die het woord 'veiligheid' allang als een schim uit ons vocabulaire hebben weggestreept, de optimistische waanvoorstelling van die door idealisme verblinde generatie nu belachelijk maken, het geloof dat de technische vooruitgang van de mensheid beslist een even snelle morele ontwikkeling ten gevolge moet hebben.

He makes it his task to be wholly sincere with himself, and he notes this definition of wisdom which he finds in Pindar: "True being is the beginning of a great virtue.

to see passion in every crime, and use that passion to excuse it.

And although our time gave me the opportunity like anyone else, I never got my hands on the property or assets of another Frenchman. Only alone have I lived, whether in war or peace, and I have never demanded anything of someone without remunerating him justly. I have my law and my own courts of justice, and they pass sentence on me.

Es cien veces mejor sufrir por una convicción que matar por ella.

como advertencia para otras generaciones, redacta en esos días de soledad su última obra, al mismo tiempo la más grande, De officiis, la enseñanza de las obligaciones que el hombre independiente, el hombre moral, ha de cumplir frente a sí mismo y frente al Estado.

Tüm dünya yerle bir olurken, insan?n kendisi için çal??mas? bir suç.

El que quiere y cree que puede evitar hacer el mal con sabiduría cae en la tentación y en la culpa

La justicia pública decide seguramente sobre esas cosas con mayor severidad que yo; ella tiene el deber de proteger despiadadamente las costumbres establecidas y las convenciones legales; está obligada a juzgar y no a disculpar. Yo, sin embargo, en tanto que persona privada, no veo por qué he de adoptar el papel de juez; prefiero actuar de defensor. Personalmente, me causa mayor satisfacción comprender a los hombres que condenarlos.

I have often asked myself, I have wondered to the point of madness, why a moment's foolish action on a single occasion should matter. But we cannot shake doff what we so vaguely call conscience

We certainly did—I do not deny it—have immeasurably more individual freedom, and we did not just welcome that, we made use of it. But as Friedrich Hebbel once nicely put it, "Sometimes we have no wine, sometimes we have no goblet." Both are seldom granted to one and the same generation; if morality allows a man freedom, the state tries to remould him. If the state allows him freedom, morality will try to impose itself.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

By this time the Gentle Reader is thinking that people who go to church and sing in the choir should not make love in hayfields.