Quotes About Morality

The wages of sin are unreported.

Good girls go to Heaven. Bad girls go to Vegas.

Good and evil are indeed not two.

He walked out without his money. The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

Doing the right thing isn't always the right thing to do!

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Even if there is dishonor in the truth, Chevalier, less that dishonor if one confesses it in defence of his person.

It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie

Perps didn't always get their just deserts in this life. That was one of the reasons she kept believing in God, the hope that he would kick ass in the afterlife.

Make a wrong doer feel shy, by doing him a favour.

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

Don't fool yourself: we all have a cruel streak. We keep it under lock and key either because we're afraid of getting punished or because we believe this will somehow make a difference, make the world a better place.

That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong.

Everyone was talking about talking, and the most moral person was the one who yelled at the most other people for doing the talking all wrong.

Eating a creature shouldn't be a light thing.

The Place would already have started the leisurely, enjoyable process of digesting her into just one more piece of local gore-lore, half ghost story and half morality play, half urban myth and half just the way life goes. It would eat her memory whole, the same way its ground had eaten her body.

If you don't know this by now, mate, you'd better write it down and learn it by heart: the right thing is not always the same as what's in your pretty little rule book.

The thing is that many of their most passionate moral stances, as far as Cal can see, have to do with what words you should and shouldn't use for people, based on what problems they have, what race they are, or who they like to sleep with. While Cal agrees that you should call people whatever they prefer to be called, he considers this to be a question of basic manners, not of morals.