Quotes About Morality

Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.

Giving up wrong deeds, exercise right action. Giving up wrong speech, exercise right speech. Giving up wrong thoughts, think good thoughts.

Let one mold himself in accordance with the precepts he teachers.

As the pot slowly fills up with water, drop by drop, so does the fool, little by little, become evil.

Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.

Unwholesome acts cannot bring wholesome results. The things a fool gains amount to nothing.

Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.

Just as rust produced by iron corrodes iron, so is the violator of moral law destroyed by his own wrong action.

By oneself is evil done, by oneself is one made impure. By oneself is evil undone, by oneself is one made pure. Each one is responsible for purity and impurity. No one can cleanse another.

self-betrayal—times when I had a sense of something I should do for others but didn't do it.

a despicable human being." Judge

A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope line between being a good girl and a slut. But there was always a moment when the lines blurred and a good girl had to decide whether to toe the line, cross the line, or stay safe behind the line that guarded her virtue.

Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Aber man lebt doch nicht bloß in einer Welt, um schwach und zärtlich zu sein und alles mit Nachsicht zu behandeln, was gegen Gesetz und Gebot ist und was die Menschen verurteilen und, vorläufig wenigstens, auch noch - mit Recht verurteilen. (S.234)

There is no right life in the wrong one.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Moreau made me, but Edward taught me to be human.

he had created a monster.

A crude culture makes a coarse people, and private refinement cannot long survive public excess. There is a Gresham's law of culture as well as of money: the bad drives out the good, unless the good is defended.

All men should be good, all women virtuous. Wherefore, villain, hast thou failed?

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. When each individual realises for himself that this thing primarily stands for and should only be accepted as a moral due—that it should be paid out as honestly stored energy, and not as a usurped privilege—many of our social, religious, and political troubles will have permanently passed.

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.