Quotes About Morality

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

a sadist is a masochist who follows the golden rule

Kendi özgür irademize inanmak zorunday?z, aksi durumda ahlâki sorumlulu?umuza inanmak için temelimiz kalmaz, o zaman da ahlâki seçimlerimizin denetimimiz d???nda oldu?unu kabul etmek zorunda kal?r?z

The Moral Sense Test developed by Harvard psychologists in 2003 can be found online at: moral.wjh.harvard.edu

Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that "decent drapery" which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Fie on these dealers in poison, say I: can they not keep to the old honest way of cutting throats, without introducing such abominable innovations from Italy?

For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.

Hayat?mda hiçbir zaman, insan biçimindeki herhangi bir yarat??a dokunmak ya da yaklaÅŸmakla kendini kirlenmiÅŸ sayacak bir insan olmad?m ben.

in everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.

What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

You may have the might, but that does not necessarily make you right.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

I think every religion is founded with good intentions, but with any good thing, there's a negative use for it.

If you keep a clean heart with your money, you will have a clean karmic cycle, but the day you do something negative to another person, that karmic circle will start to bring you down.

To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.