Quotes About Morality

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Poate c? omul este r?u din fire È™i genele sale, cu trecerea secolelor, s-au modificat în ceva È™i mai r?u...

He sido malo por muchos caminos y habiendo dejado de ser malo, no soy bueno, porque he dejado el mal de cansado y no de arrepentido.

Y en la fornicación, que es un bien general, debe haber democracia libre, porque si no… va a haber que hacerlo por correspondencia…

Es evidente que la moral católica fue, es y será una de las causas más evidentes del atraso mexicano…

La moral siempre se adapta a la vida, y nunca a la inversa

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Die Revolution hätte mich mitgerissen, hätte sie nicht mit Verbrechen begonnen: beim Anblick des ersten Kopfes auf der Spitze einer Pike zuckte ich zurück. Niemals wird für mich der Mord Gegenstand der Bewunderung und ein Argument für die Freiheit sein.

It is supposed that power corrupts," the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "Yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.

God said: GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE "GUILTY" OR NOT. I said: I CARE IF I AM GUILTY! I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!... God was silent. Everything was SILENT.

1. Man is a MORAL animal. 2. You can get human beings to do anything — IF you convince them it is moral. 3. You can convince human beings anything is moral.

There is no patron saint of estate agents because no estate agent has ever become a saint. There have been saints who were sailors, blacksmiths, soldiers, bakers, teachers, housewives, swineherds, kings even. But in the whole of history, not one estate agent ever became a saint or even a blessed. It makes you think.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone's life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as important in their spheres as the sun in the sky. The very weight of a gun disturbs me-an insolent object, insisting on its own importance.

The discovery that imperialism was immoral took some time to sink in. Almost a decade later a former colonial governor noted in quiet disbelief that 'there are those who believe that any form "colonialism" is inherently evil'.

10. Appreciate that character is the result of conduct. As Aristotle taught us, we know people primarily by what they do. What others say about them, or what they say about themselves, may or may not be true.