Quotes About Morality

A natureza não está interessada nesse tipo de moral, ela não está interessada no certo ou no errado. Ela não está interessada na justiça ou na injustiça. O seu interesse é unicamente de forçar tudo a expressar a ação de acordo com a sua natureza.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

You can win, for a time, through ruthlessness and stealth; you can garner in more of this world's goods than you will need, by sheer force and shrewd strategy, without taking the time or going to the trouble of being agreeable; but, sooner or later, you will come to that point in life at which you will feel the pangs of remorse and the emptiness of your well filled purse.

The wages of sin is death!

A man of profound sincerity is a great moral force, and there is no force — not even the highest intellectual force — that can compare with it. Men are powerful in influence according to the soundness and perfection of their sincerity.

there is no hope for the person who is dishonest by choice. Sooner or later, his deeds will catch up with him, and he will pay by loss of reputation, and perhaps even loss of liberty.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

The hypocrite thinks he can hood wink the world and the eternal law of the world. There is but one person that he hoodwinks, and that is himself, and for that the law of the world inflicts its righteous penalty.

But remember that extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.

When men first come into contact with crime, they abhor it. If they remain in contact with crime for a time, they become accustomed to it, and endure it. If they remain in contact with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and become influenced by it.

You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

It is much more immoral to claim virtue without fully living with its direct consequences.

formation of moral values in society doesn't come from the evolution of the consensus. No, it is the most intolerant person who imposes virtue on others precisely because of that intolerance.

If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse.

An honest person will never commit criminal acts, but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts.

The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people's greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in addition, extol such greed as a moral (or intellectual) accomplishment (the reader can easily see that, aside from very few exceptions like George Soros, I am not impressed by people with money).

George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

The Golden Rule wants you to Treat others the way you would like them to treat you. The more robust Silver Rule says Do not treat others the way you would not like them to treat you.

Anything one needs to market heavily is necessarily either an inferior product or an evil one. And it is highly unethical to portray something in a more favorable light than it actually is.

As an empiricist (actually a skeptical empiricist) I despise the moralizers beyond anything on this planet: I still wonder why they blindly believe in ineffectual methods. Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions. We will see how modern behavioral science shows this to be completely untrue.

People try to impress you with the things they have done ... You should be more impressed with things they would never do.