Quotes About Morality

Tengo un presentimiento sobre Zuzana. Creo que no es buena o mala, si no las dos cosas -la mezcla perfecta de ambas, un enroscado cono de helado de bondad y maldad.

Good people do all the things bad people do Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.

Te-ai intrebat vreodata , monstrii dac razboi sau razboiul ii face pe monstri?

one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

One looked at him and thought, Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

A thirteen year old girl shouldn't be okay with taking a nude picture of herself and sending it to a boy. There's something deeply wrong with that.

Politik memang bukan tentang apa yang benar. Politik adalah bagaimana kita salah dengan benar.

It's true on a technicality. I'm being held unlawfully. I didn't commit the crime for which I've been convicted. But if you look at it another way, I deserve to be here. I did a lot of other shitty things, for which I wasn't punished.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

Principles do not much influence the unprincipled, nor mainly the principled.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

No peace for the wicked

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.

No one is ever the villain of their own story.

Everyone is more than one thing," said Kieran. "We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.

Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.

So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?" Clary demanded "Because you thought he had a shady past? Who- who does that? It doesnt make any sense.

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." - Jem Carstairs

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.

I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge