Quotes About Morality

If you laugh at it, you're stepping over the corpses. And if you work with him, well, it's worse.

The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors offered him a six-figure sum in recognition of his pioneering wartime inventions. Jefferis was gratified but turned it down. 'His Edwardian principals of right and wrong were very strong,' said his son John.16 He did not believe he should profit from having helped to defeat Hitler.

Enterramos o machado de guerra a propósito da ditadura do proletariado e da Revolução, mas novos antagonismos surgiram: pena de morte, imigração, prisôes, aborto, droga, eutanásia, energia nuclear, meios de procriação, proteção social, seleção, questões sobre as quais é inútil esperar poder encontrar qualquer unanimidade; nossas sociedades estão entregues ao dilaceramento das perspectivas.

I am longing to show him my love, but not by doing what is wrong

Lice breeds lice, and sin breeds sin.

And: there are so many paths we could have traveled—so many other people we could have been. Staying would not have rendered me weak—an inconsequential June Cleaver—just as cheating didn't make me a coldhearted monster. The clean reduction of a woman to any prime number is always a lie, even if some lies are prettier than others.

When we stop drawing a line between moral failings and evil, between the very things that make us human and those that take away our humanity—when we lose sight of mercy and mistake it for weakness, all is lost.

Fear makes people lawless. If indifference is hate's opposite, then compassion is fear's.

Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in his Decameron that people, afraid of contamination by the rotting corpses, would drag the dead outside their houses and leave them in front of their doors to be picked up, like so much garbage.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

La experiencia me enseñó que, ciertamente, se puede ganar una guerra con cualquier clase de personas, pero no se puede construir un sistema justo, con valores éticos, si quienes se proponen hacerlo carecen de ellos o sacrifican esos mismos valores en el camino.

Quizás esté mal, Eva, pero el Mal también es parte del conocimiento.

In Guerra, in che cosa differivano gli uomini in campo? Che differenza c'era, in fondo, tra due uomini armati di fucile, disposti a uccidersi in difesa di ragioni che entrambi consideravano giuste?

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

un monaco, il quale in ogni cosa era santissimo fuor che nell'opera delle femine; e questo sapeva sí cautamente fare che quasi niuno, non che il sapesse, ma né suspicava, per che santissimo e giusto era tenuto in ogni cosa.

la gratitud, según lo creo, es entre las demás virtudes sumamente de alabar y su contraria de maldecir

La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

La civilización le ha corrompido, le ha hecho volverse humanitario y vegetariano.

TristeÈ›ii fizice È™i absolute a dup?-amiezilor din timpul s?rb?torilor de iarn? i-au urmat întrebarea asupra r?ului È™i binelui existenÈ›ei, iar spirirtul spunea nu la orice promisiune, orice vis mincinos, orice pl?cere fals? È™i sufla peste cele din urm? farmece, ca vântul de la miezul nopÈ›ii peste ultimele pâlpâiri ale unor lumân?ri muribunde.

La moneda, junto con la suciedad de las manos que la han asido y palpado, lleva consigo el contagio inexorable del crimen. Entre todas las cosas inmundas que el hombre ha manufacturado para ensuciar la tierra y ensuciarse él mismo, quizá sea la moneda la más inmunda de todas

La salvación de la moral y de la sociedad no se obtienen con vanos y costosos procesos contra los culpables, sino con interminables procesos contra los inocentes

Un duro non sarà mai un dritto. Il duro, quando se la vede brutta, spara. Il dritto non si mette mai nella condizione di dover sparare.

If morality is extinguished, there is no human being left.

now at long last one of them is going to have the courage to explain to my generation how any human being with mind and heart and brain could Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not even 'do' what was done – it isn't our function to say whether a man is 'guilty as charged' or not – but even see it being done, and consent to remain alive.