Quotes About Morality

Kindly consider the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?

The only thing he said was that among human vices he considered cowardice one of the first.'7

g??vums, bez šaub?m, ir viens no visbriesm?g?kajiem netikumiem.

Vai tu neb?tu tik labs un nepadom?tu par t?du jaut?jumu: ja nepast?v?tu ?aunums, k?da noz?me b?tu labajam, un k? izskat?tos zeme, ja no t?s vaiga izgaistu visas ?nas?

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?

qué haría tu bien si no existiera el mal y qué aspecto tendría la tierra si desaparecieran las sombras? Los hombres y los objetos producen sombras. Ésta es la sombra de mi espada. También hay sombras de árboles y seres vivos. ¿No querrás raspar toda la tierra, arrancar los árboles y todo lo vivo para gozar de la luz desnuda? Eres un necio.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by living things and people.

The Procurator did not squint because the sun dazzled him. No! For some reason, he did not want to see the group of condemned men who, as he well knew, were being escorted behind him onto the platform. (40)

What would your good do if evil didn't exist_

Así es la gente! Todos son iguales: conocen de antemano todos los aspectos dañinos de una acción, ayudan, aconsejan e incluso la aprueban, al ver que no hay otro remedio, pero luego se lavan las manos y dan la espalda, con indignación, a quien tuvo el valor de cargar con toda responsabilidad. ¡Todos son así, hasta los más bondadosos, hasta los más inteligentes...!

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

How goodness heightens beauty!

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.

This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.

We have no idea any more what it means to feel guilty. The communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them, murdurers have the excuse that their mothers didn't love them. And suddenly you come out and say: there is no excuse. No one could be more innocent in his soul and conscience than Oedipus, and yet he punished himself when he saw what he had done.

Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil.

But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.

When young people's education is at stake, compromise is crime.

Pravda, u stvari, i ne treba da nas previše zanima. Pravda nije ljudska stvar. Postoji pravda slijepih i krutih zakona, a osim nje možda i neka viša pravda, ali tu ja ne razumijem. Uvijek mi se ?inilo da na ovom svijetu živim izvan pravde. Pravda me se ne ti?e. Pravda je nešto izvan mene i iznad mene. Kako god se uzme, nešto neljudsko. Nikad ne?u sura?ivati s tom odvratnom silom.

La verdadera prueba de la moralidad de la humanidad, la más honda (situada a tal profundidad que escapa a nuestra percepción), radica en su relación con aquellos que están a su merced: los animales

SeçmediÄŸimiz bir ÅŸeye kendi erdemimiz ya da baÅŸar?s?zl???m?z gözüyle bakamay?z.

Stvarna dobrota ?ovjeka može se pokazati u svoj svojoj ?isto?i i slobodi samo u odnosu prema nekome tko ne posjeduje nikakvu mo?. Pravi ispit ljudskog morala, onaj osnovni (iskren tako duboko da izmi?e našem pogledu) jest u odnosu ?ovjeka prema onima koji su mu prepušteni na milost i nemilost - prema životinjama. A baš je tu došlo do fundamentalnog debakla ?ovjeka, u toj mjeri elementarnog da su iz njega proizašli svi ostali.

Dios les dio a los hombres la libertad y por eso podemos suponer que al fin y al cabo no es responsable de los crímenes humanos. Pero el único responsable de la mierda es aquel que creó al hombre.