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Quotes About Morality

When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
~ W. H. Auden
No man ever became very wicked all at once.
~ Juvenal
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wickedness is weakness.
~ John Milton
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
~ Proverbs
The sun also shines on the wicked.
~ Seneca
'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
~ Epictetus
Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right.
~ Woody Allen
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
~ Aldous Huxley
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.
~ Baruch Spinoza
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
~ Hilaire Belloc
Two wrongs do not make a right.
~ English proverb
You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.
~ Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.
~ Cicero
George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war.
~ Rick Claro, c.2005
Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one.
~ Grace McGarvie, unverified
Every man is the son of his actions.
~ Spanish proverb
Jews refuse to apply Kant's categorical imperative and be limited by universal rules. We might attempt a definition of a Jew as someone unable to make an objective moral judgement. His arguments will forever vary according to whether the subject is good for Jews or bad for Jews. WMD are bad in gentile hands but good in Jewish ones. Gentile nationalism is bad, devotion to the Jewish cause is good. Equal rights for Jews and non-Jews is good in Europe but bad in Palestine.
~ Israel Shamir
Anyone who grows up around farm animals cannot side with a wolf in the long clash of things. But you can be against tormenting any creature.
~ Ivan Doig
A što svijet hvali dobre i izdašne ljude, to je zato što od njih i njihove propasti živi.
~ Ivo Andri?
Ako ho?eš da znaš kakva je neka država i njena uprava, i kakva im je budu?nost, gledaj samo da saznaš koliko u toj zemlji ima ?estitih i nevinih ljudi po zatvorima, a koliko zlikovaca i prestupnika na slobodi. To ?e ti najbolje kazati.
~ Ivo Andri?
Možda je u po?etku bilo i drugih motiva, ali danas je glavni strah. Od straha su ljudi zli, surovi i podli, od straha su darežljivi, ?ak i dobri.
~ Ivo Andri?
He who is not delicate flower of your soul to the winds of temptation, whatever it whole and saved and passed on to the end, it's as if it never had.
~ Ivo Andri?