Quotes About Morality

WHEN THE DEVIL IGNORES YA, THEN YA KNOW YER DOIN SOMETHIN WRONG. . WHEN THE DEVIL COMES AT YA, MAYBE IT'S 'CAUSE YER TRYIN' TO DO SOMETHIN' RIGHT.

Try to be a good person, because you think it's the right thing to do. If you commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

We aren't born good or bad. Maybe we're born with tendencies either way, but its the way we live your life that matters.

Alway's keep true to yourself. Never be ashamed of doing what is right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl.

The true measure of a person is how they treat you when others are not looking.

My value as a person is not measured by the number of people who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and my word.

The Truth is a double edged sword. Can cut both ways. But if truth is allowed to die then why are we here? I for one will continue to speak the truth no matter who gets mad.

What's wrong with people? That don't value their life or the life of others. Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

Your little choices good or bad, is up to you.

It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others.

Often times it's easier to do bad things out of emotions, but we have to educate our minds to do the right thing which is harder to do. Proper discernment and wise decision is needed which needs a little time to act.

Hold, Sir, I say! None of your profanity before me. If I do evil to anyone on such occasions, it is because he will have it so; therefore, the evil is not of my doing.

Those who say that they know what kind of art they like, or what kind of god, or what kind of moral structure are saying that they like what kind of art, god, structure they know, that is that which makes them feel more comfortable. Being pried free of spiritual constraint is the gift doubt brings. The suppression of doubt ensures that we are left with a partial truth, a one-sided value, a prejudicial narrowing of the richness that life has to bring.

None of us would admit to having "bad character," although we have all done bad things. In fact, a person who has never done anything "bad" will be a pretty superficial, infantile being, and that is a bad thing.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.

All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. They call them pin-up girls and think its cute how our boys, now that they're drafted, love to hang them in their wall lockers. And then close up all the whorehouses, every place they can, so our young men will not be contaminated.

Sin is obviously relative to the man, and not a universal attribute.

Be just before you are generous.

If we must have a Jesus let us have a legitimate Jesus.

She asked him why did he not write out his thoughts. For what, he asked her, with careful scorn. To compete with phrasemongers, incapable of thinking consecutively for sixty seconds? To submit himself to the criticisms of an obtuse middle class which entrusted its morality to policemen and its fine arts to impressarios?

Seamos justos antes que generosos

Better for ninetynine guilty to escape than for one innocent person to be wrongfully condemned.

Tenía la costumbre de tratar los problemas morales como el carnicero a la carne, y en aquel caso había tomado la decisión