Quotes About Morality

Dios os contempla, mierdosos, y se avergüenza de vosotros...

On me donne de l'or. Beaucoup d'or. Mais je n'ai pas le droit de le dépenser. Personne ne veut rien me vendre. J'ai une maison et beaucoup d'or, mais je dois digérer la honte de tout le village. Ils me paient pour que j'aie des remords à leur place. De tout ce qu'ils font de mal ou d'impie. De tous leurs vices. De leurs crimes. De la foire aux vieux. Des bêtes torturées. Des apprentis. Et des ordures.

basta fare domande per tenere la coscienza pulita, è un organo ben protetto e di agevole manutenzione.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

As Lincoln himself said, "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.

A true gentleman, a chivalrous man, is just a bit more savage than most people imagine. a man who is not roused to combat evil is no gentleman.

As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, 'Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

There was no moral equivalence among systems of government, their leaders, or cultures. Any society that did not respect human rights or the rule of law could not consider itself the equal of those that did.

His grandmother had brought him up as a good Christian and someone who knew the difference between right and wrong.

While stealing was a death penalty offense in the camps, as a husband and father, Billy Tang had no doubts that there were certain things worth dying for.

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.

But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him –without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best.

Sería concebible para un jurado inglés que pudiera existir un negro que no robara ni mintiera? ¿Un negro que fuera una persona respetable? No parecía probable.

But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.

Um sistema moral que pune a mulher e isenta o homem de toda a culpa me parece assaz execrável.

You always do that, you know," Alec said. I swallowed a gummy bear. "Do what?" "Bite their heads off first." I shrugged. "It's the nice thing to do. If you could choose, would you rather be eaten alive starting at your feet or would you want it to be over quickly?

Sin was a powerful temptation, indeed

Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could work toward finding even a dozen. The devil knew he'd worn out the original seven.

Business man or not, he had the soul of a thief.

the simple way of speaking the truth is by not lying. If you do not lie, you are speaking the truth. But if you are trying to speak the truth and you do not know what truth is, then you are making your own truth. You say my truth is my truth and I am speaking the truth and you should listen to me. That is confusion. Do not lie. By not lying, you practice speaking the truth.

In all religions, as in all legal systems. people find ways to skirt the rules. We obey the letter of the law without honoring its spirit, and then reassure ourselves of our righteousness.

I had rooted for Godzilla and King Kong instead of for the people trying to kill them. ... Nobody likes to be awakened from slumber by a nuclear explosion

Hegel, the great eighteenth-century German philosopher, maintained that the essence of tragedy derives not from one character being right and the other being wrong, or from the conflict of good versus evil, but from a conflict in which both characters are right, and thus the tragedy is one of right against right, being carried to its logical conclusion.