Quotes About Morality

Io non credo alle fiamme e allo zolfo dell'inferno; ma in momenti come questo rimpiango la mia miscredenza. No, in momenti come questo io quasi ci credo. Deve esistere per forza un inferno, perché in nessun altro posto voi potrete ricevere una punizione adeguata ai vostri crimini. Fino a quando esisterà gente come voi, l'inferno sarà un'esigenza essenziale del cosmo.

did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his stomach. He did not rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out of respect for club and fang. In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel

John Stuart Mill, in his essay, ON LIBERTY, wrote: Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.

An' when you're dead, you'll rot the same as me, an' what's it matter how you live? - eh? Tell me that what's it matter in the long run?

Yükselen bir s?n?f?n bulunduÄŸu her yerde ahlak?n büyük k?sm? menfaatlerden ve bu s?n?f?n üstünlük duygusundan doÄŸar.

What's right got to do with it? he demanded back. You see all those books. He moved his hand over the array of volumes on the walls of his tiny office. All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what is right. But you go to those books to learn . . . law.

herkes suçlu olunca kimse cezaland?r?lamazd?.

Adaleti de adaletsizli?i de kendi tanr?lar?n?n elinden almas? gerekiyordu.

Bu h?rs?zl?k ayn? zamanda, ac?mas?z var olma mücadelesinde anlams?z bir engel olan ahlak anlay???n?n çürüdüÄŸünü veya parçaland???n? da gösteriyordu.

Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it. He is absolutely certain that civilization and progress rest on his shoulders and upon the shoulders of the small group of men like him.

Morality is only evidence of low blood pressure.

Parables don't lie, but liars will parable."—Lip-King.

Hayat?nda ahlâk timsali olarak hareket etmiyorsan ahlâk kurallar? boÅŸunad?r. Bizler öÄŸretilerini hayatlar?nda uygulamama cüretini gösteren öÄŸretmenlerden miyiz yoksa?

Suç hakikaten de hastal???n ta kendisi. Suçlu, yani haks?z davranan kiÅŸi, hastad?r ve bu yüzden gerektiÄŸince tedavi edilmelidir ki hastal???ndan kurtulabilsin.

Zaten bütün âhlakç?lar kaç?k damgas? yemiÅŸtir, diyerek at?ld?. Daha doÄŸrusu, dönemlerinin s?radan insanlar? taraf?ndan kaç?k diye nitelendirilmiÅŸlerdir.

go after the ones who are greedy, who only want to help themselves, who exploit other people for personal gain. But the fault lies in those individuals, not in the nature of capitalism.

Those who seek to be rich fall into temptation and the snares of the Devil.

I give dignity second place to expedience," said Cugel.

Now then!" cried Vita Palas. "Don't you go slanging me, you raddled old hussy! I know your kind, all skin and spleen, and wrinkles to wrap over all! Your own morals are sewage, you with your dancing-boys and gigolos! Don't you try slanging me any more, or I'll snatch off your wig and really explain what I think of you! It will not be nice! It will turn your long nose blue!

A detached attitude toward the problems of others is not illegal.

Merely surviving without doing harm seemed chore enough.

It is my observation, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others. I like to think it might have been so.

My soul might be black with sin, but my flesh was clean.