Quotes About Morality

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Lo que considera un error es que la política se piense idealizándola contra la evidencia empírica a costa de supeditarla rígidamente a las normas y valores cristianos.

Die Menschen sind undankbar, unbeständig, heuchlerisch, furchtsam und eigennützig.

Ludzie b?d? zawsze dla ciebie ?li, je?eli konieczno?? nie zmusi ich do tego, by byli dobrzy

Ne zaman bir sak?ncadan kaçmaya çal??sak bir baÅŸkas?na düÅŸeriz; ama saÄŸduyu, sak?ncalar?n niteliklerini tan?may? ve en az kötüyü iyi olarak seçmeyi bilmek demektir.

KiÅŸinin nas?l yaÅŸad??? ve nas?l yaÅŸamas? gerektiÄŸi aras?nda öyle büyük bir uçurum vard?r ki, yap?lmas? gereken uÄŸruna yap?lan? terk eden kiÅŸi, çok geçmeden korunmas?n? deÄŸil, y?k?m?n? öÄŸrenmiÅŸ olur.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive. (p.73)

How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.' (ch XV)

There is in everything a latent evil peculiar to it.

How we live is so difference than how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. The Prince.

Each man's morality, thought Georgia, is a compromise between the strength of his character and the strength of his environment. Where you have no character to fix the ratio, you get the genius and the lunatic, to whom morality is meaningless.

Of course, no matter how Henry tried to rationalize what he had done, his survival depended upon his capacity for betrayal. He willingly turned on the world he knew and the men with whom he had been raised with the same nonchalance he had used in setting up a bookie joint or slipping a tail. For Henry Hill giving up the life was hard, but giving up his friends was easy.

On one occasion Jimmy is said to have given the elderly, impoverished mother of a young hood five thousand dollars. The woman's son was said to have owed his mother the money but had refused to pay her. Jimmy was apparently so incensed at this lack of regard for motherhood that he gave the woman the five thousand in the morning, claiming it was from her son, and then allegedly killed the woman's son before dusk.

Nowadays, it's an offence even to be innocent in the eyes of the guilty; a person outrages the wicked simply by not joining in!

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.

He believed that most people, when given the choice, would do what was right, even when it was hard, and he believed that good almost always triumphed over evil. He wasn't naive, though. "Trust people," he would tell me, "until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.

It's important to remember that none of us is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. All we can do is try to be the best version of ourselves as we move forward. In this case, if he asks, you can tell the truth, or you can lie. I suppose it comes down to the kind of person you want to see when you look in the mirror.

Because he believed in honesty and integrity, my father believed that others did as well. He believed in human decency and assumed others were just like him. He believed that most people, when given the choice, would do what was right, even when it was hard, and he believed that good almost always triumphed over evil. He wasn't naive, though.

In college, there aren't many guys like that, and why would there be? When girls just give it away for nothing? I mean, I can understand why you'd sleep with someone if you love them, but if you barely know them? What's the point? It just cheapens it.

Actions - not thoughts or intentions - were the way to judge others.

That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.