Quotes About Morality

Možda revolucije ra?aju ?udovišta? -Jeste, ali one se za?inju u veli?ini i moralnoj ?istoti, ali ra?aju ?udovišta.

Kažu da nije znao šta je žensko tijelo ni plotsko uživanje uopšte. Nikada nije okusio nikakva opojnog pi?a, ni fildžan kafe, ni dim duvana. Ali nije osu?ivao one koji se služe svim tim božjim darovima za ovoga kratkoga života.

Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth.

What is it that frightens you, Councillor Maximov? When you read about Karamzin or Karamzov or whatever his name is, when Karamzin's skull is cracked open like an egg, what is the truth: do you suffer with him, or do you secretly exult behind the arm that swings the axe? You don't answer? Let me tell you then: reading is being the arm and being the axe and being the skull; reading is giving yourself up, not holding yourself at a distance and jeering.

Sometimes the unspeakable can come from the decent. And sometimes, it's possible to make yourself decent out of the unspeakable.

He had a conscience as elastic as any politician could wish for.

I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

Not all murder is evil... In the right time, the right place, for the right reason -- it can be a blessing more profound than any you can imagine

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move'.

If you hold fast to what's true and right and just, things work out.

I'm not into sluts. Our tradition says you honor your body by sharing it only with someone you are halved with. Guess I can't get that bullshit out of my head. ~iAm, Ch.63

Ethics is lived eschatology. It is, as New Testament scholar George Eldon Ladd put it, "the presence of the future."4

If you always depend on laws of the majority to tell you what is wrong then you are risking your own happiness and morality.

Fuck him. Feeney made a sound like a man who'd been pinched. Christ Jesus, Dallas, you're in St. Pat's. If God's going to make little weasels like him, she's going to have to listen to complaints.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

Real responsibility means doing what's right, even when it's hard.

There's always a way out. You just have to pay the price, whether it's money, status, the emotional hit, or all of that and more. Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

Criminal activity does have its appeal. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many criminals.

To have birthed and bred her, beaten and raped her all for selling her to other scum. What god made such creatures as that and set them to prey on innocents?

I crossed the line." "The line shifts." Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. "If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?

You've got a point. But I like it better when the bad guys are just the bad guys." "There's always plenty of them to go around.

Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

Do you think any of us go anywhere until we have the truth? Do you think there's peace without justice?" "No, I don't," Eve admitted, knowing it would always drive her.

There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.