Quotes About Morality

You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.

As everyone knows, people revert to virtuous ways when they are too old for their virtue to be endangered. The confessor was not deceived by any of these women who repented out of impotence or malice and were inclined to criticize in others the very aberrations of which they themselves had formerly been guilty.

Con?tiin?a e spa?iul fic?ional în care r?ul f?cut altuia este imaginat analogic ca r?u suferit pe cont propriu.

Supravie?uim moral prin convingerea, pe care nici o mâr??vie comis? nu ne-o anuleaz?, c? suntem mai buni ca ceilal?i.

Toate civiliza?iile care s-au dus de râp? au fost victima conjunc?iei letale dintre tic?lo?ie ?i ignoran??.

Credin?a nu este, nu a fost ?i nu va fi niciodat? o virtute.

I am beyond Right and Left, just as I am beyond good and evil… I am a man devoted to life, not to formulas.

though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise

This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.

it is not an inevitability that we should be our worst selves behind the mask of an avatar. What I believe to my very core is that virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?

Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?" "Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And Daddy always said that we have to be mindful of those who are less fortunate." "But Daddy killed people, didn't he?" "Yes," I admitted. "Daddy was complex.

Every generation spins the wheel,Anya, and where it lands defines 'the good'. Funny thing is they never know that they're spining it, and it hits something different every time.

Sadie knew she didn't want to make a shooter, though, again, that was what tended to be popular. (She would never want to make a shooter—she, Dov's student to her core, found them disgusting, immoral, and the disease of an immature society;

virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?

What I believe to my very core is that virtual worlds can be better than the actual world. They can be more moral, more just, more progressive, more empathetic, and more accommodating of difference. And if they can be, shouldn't they be?

life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.

She would never want to make a shooter—she, Dov's student to her core, found them disgusting, immoral, and the disease of an immature society;

The idea of Solution was that if you won the game on points, you lost it morally.

Kiedy? przekonasz si?, ?e ludzie z regu?y nie s? ani ca?kiem dobrzy, ani ?li. Mo?e w nich tkwi? odrobina dobra i ca?a masa z?a albo mog? by? z gruntu dobrzy z niewielk? domieszk? z?a

You had things you wanted to know. But she is so hung up on the morality of it that she's useless.

For instance, your life is a lie, and she never lies. When she heard the story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, she barely understood it. "Of course he told the truth. The chopping down of a cherry tree would be a very big thing to cover up," she said.