Quotes About Morality

Being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way

If your hands were not clean, your good actions had grimmer and more relentless consequences than your sins.

If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.

When you think you're on the good side, you're capable of unthinkable evil.

Se for necessário fazer mal a um homem, então que seja de tal forma grave, que não haja razão para temer a sua vingança.

I thought you were a white knights who put great store in chivalry. It's not the least chivalrous of you to try to seduce me.

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will rather bring about his ruin than his preservation.

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

Whether the individual fights this battle in ways such that men call him good or such that they call him evil is determined by the measure and makeup of his intellect.

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

And while I shall keep silent about some points, I do not want to remain silent about my morality which says to me: Live in seclusion so that you can live for yourself. Live in ignorance about what seems most important to your age. Between yourself and today lay the skin of at least three centuries. And the clamor of today, the noise of wars and revolutions should be a mere murmur for you.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive

Of all the evil I deem you capable. Therefore I want the good from you. Verily I have often laughed at weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, à ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant à celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute à son tour.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

Those who do the right thing don't do it simply because of how they feel: the decision has to be based on reason, reason that tells you what your duty is, regardless of how you happen to feel.

Boethius, dunyada adaletin yokmus gibi gorunmesine hayiflanir. Cogu kez iyiler ve erdemliler aci cekerken kotuler gonenir. Felsefe, iyiyi arayislariyla nihai amaca, sahici mutluluga ulasma gucune sahip olduklari icin aslinda erdemlilerin odullendirildigini iddia eder. Kotuler yalnizca goneniyormus gibi gorunur: Aslinda akillarini terk etmekle insanliktan cikarlar ve onlara ceza vermek yerine acimak ve tedavi etmek gerekir.

tevazu, utangaçl?k ile utanmazl?k aras?nda durur

I think that, in reality, there is something wrong with human beings, and unless we are willing to face the fact that something is really wrong with human beings, unless we are willing to face the fact that somewhere in our imaginations we are evil, vicious people, it is not going to work.