Quotes About Morality

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Honesty, humility and hard work will lead to success in life.

The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist.

A body is a body." Viscarro shrugged his bony shoulders. "Dead, alive, alive, dead. I fail to see the importance of the distinction." Yeah? So you'd just as soon fuck a living person as a dead one? What's the point of the distinction? Oh, right-one's normal, and one's called necrophilia." Viscarro sighed. "Touche, I suppose.

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

only a fool obeys the law if it is against his own advantage.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.

Justice never sleeps.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money. To work is senseless, because money cannot be obtained through work, but through exploitation of others. And if we cannot exploit as much as we wish, at least let us work as little as we can. Moral duty? We believe neither in the morality of man nor in the morality of systems. [p. 168]

I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

We said that there is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself. And, having saved himself, he will commit crimes for increasingly trivial reasons; he will commit them first out of duty, then from habit, and finally -for pleasure.

There are no good or evil people. There is only a great, unfathomable mob trampling itself underfoot. The life-giving sources of the old morality have dried up and vanished in the sands of oblivion. There's no other source to draw from, no place to refresh oneself. There is no example, no inspiration. It is night. A night of indifference, apathy, chaos.

Z?o w??czy?o si? w nasze kody etyczne i sta?o si? dobrem. Fatalnym, rakowatym dobrem.

??? ??? ??? ???? ? ?? ??? ??." "Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal

A hypocrite is one who sets good examples only when he has an audience.

Worry about your character and not your reputation, because your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people think of you.

Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.

Never try to destroy someone else's life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth.