Quotes About Morality

In short: a good conscience is nothing else but the expression of a desire we all have-to be ourselves and feel comfortable. Those who tell petty, occasional lies suffer far more than great criminals, simply because the latter are thoroughly used to it.

and your sense of personal authenticity and power should be resolved into virtue.

Elles portent le hijab le plus sévère et parviennent à se prostituer sans montrer la plus infime parcelle de leur corps. Du grand art!

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

One cannot conceive man actually ascribing ethical qualities to his gods before he becomes sufficiently developed to formulate moral rules for his own guidance, and to create moral laws for his fellow man.

Man is a social animal; his character is a social product. The purely human qualities not only lose their value when divorced from social relationships, it is these relationships that provide the only medium for their activity. To say that a person is free to express moral qualities in the absence of his fellows is meaningless, since it is only in their presence that the manifestation of them is possible.

And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life of civilised man was at its lowest, morality at its weakest, and the general outlook most hopeless. Religious control gave us heresy hunts, and Jew hunts, burnings for witchcraft, and magic in the place of medicine. It gave us the Inquisition and the auto da fé, the fires of Smithfield and the night of St. Bartholomew.

What does the delegate propose? To place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man?" In

I would rather be ruled by people who think they're going to fry in Hell forever if they rule me poorly, than by people for whom I'm merely a convenient economic siphon who can be milked like a cow.

Company G today committed a war crime. They are going to win the war, however, so I don't suppose it really matters.

Perhaps it would be sweet to be, in turn, both victim and executioner.

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan.

Hypocrite lecteur—mon semblable—mon frère[Hypocrite reader—my double—my brother]!

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

randomly around her plate. I said later: at least no ham, no pork, no shrimp mousse, no trayf. But Harry, she said, veal to me is like a frozen scream.

Ethics is a dream.

But the very worst kind of collaboration was a French woman sleeping with a German. They were called the horizontal collaborationists.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

I try to construct a theory on how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella: But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.