Quotes About Morality

This new world was no Christian commonwealth; it never would be. It was in truth no better than the old, no less ruled by power and vanity.

You sound as fierce against sin as Harsnet.' He grinned. 'Only sins I don't feel drawn to myself,' he said with a flash of his old humour. ' 'Tis always easy to condemn those.

I always say there's nothing wrong with a bit of vice as long as it's not taken to the extreme. Give me someone with a touch of vice over someone with an excess of sanctimonious hypocrisy any day.

He made an honest woman of me. It's a curious expression, don't you agree? An 'honest woman' is a very different creature from an 'honest man' and has nothing to do with the truth or lack thereof. Just as a woman's honor is a very different thing from a man's. It's as if when it comes to women, all possible virtues—honesty, honor, even virtue itself—are reduced simply to whom we allow between our legs.

Would I be commenting on Amy Fisher? Was that the sort of subject that someone who hoped to become poet laureate should discuss? Would those British laureates who had traditionally written about royal birthdays and royal jubilees have dealt with such goings on?

All roads from Rousseau lead to Sade.

Every road from Rousseau leads to Sade.

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

Tragic woman is less moral than man. Her will-to-power is naked. Her actions are under a chthonian cloud.

If you are going to do wrong, at least make sure you don't get fat from it.

I have this theory: You can get away with anything as long as you act like you're not doing anything wrong.

We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.

You must always be yourself, no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

My father's a large man, very strong, but he says fighting is for people who can't win with their brains. He also says there are times when you've got no choice but to defend yourself from common morons.

The deceased was a well-known scumbucket and they don't usually have the decency to kill themselves. Usually someone else does the honor.

You won't change the whole world, but you'll change somebody's world - and for the better. And, just as inevitably, some of you won't. You'll park your principles in the long-term lot and spend your future taking advantage of people.

while honesty is a good thing, lying is occasionally necessary in order to protect people.

So that's your man? The 'talent' you manage?' 'He had a bad night.' Coolman said tightly. Merry cackled. 'A bad night? The dude's a total homophobe! Also a bigot!' 'There's a culture gap, that's all.' 'No, it's a decency gap, Bob! Your client's a flaming a-hole! What's the matter with you? I'm so disappointed.' Coolman had received other morality lectures, though never from a professional criminal.

In other words, we saved an animal from extinction just so we could start killing it again. How messed up is that?

At heart Chaz Perrone was irrefutably a cheat and a maggot, but he had always shunned violence as dutifully as a Quaker elder. Nobody who knew him, including his few friends, would have imagined him capable of homicide. Chaz himself was somewhat amazed that he'd actually gone through with it.

and the Chamber of Commerce was handing out cyanide capsules.

Wahoo's father had absolutely no use for creeps who beat on small animals, especially kids.

I'm not a religious person,' Skink continued, 'but stealing a preacher's car is a slime-dog move, even by the gutter standards of today's common criminal.

She said, 'you think I'm a whore?' 'Don't be ridiculous.' Erin stepped back from the water. 'But you wouldn't want your daughter doing what I do.' 'My daughter,' said Garcia, 'is not leaving the house until she's thirty years old.