Quotes About Morality

The terrible, exasperating thing about humans is how goodness and gentleness, and utter depravity and disregard for human life, can be contained within the same person, and in terrifyingly close proximity.

Capital punishment is symbolic of society's determination to enforce all of its laws. If we don't enforce the severest of our laws, the criminal mind might conclude (punishments of) other laws won't be imposed against them

For guilt was the existential edge of sex. Without guilt, sex was meaningless.

Executions must be a spectator sport.

One never does wrong by doing right.

I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity.

Hay 3 clases de amistad: por interés o utilidad, por placer y la amistad perfecta, la de los hombres de bien y semejantes en virtud, porque éstos se desean igualmente el bien.

Es posible que lo que llamamos pecado no sea sino la expresión mítica de la conciencia de nosotros mismos, de nuestra soledad.

El amor es exclusivo; la caridad no lo es: preferir a una persona entre otras es un pecado contra la caridad.

A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.

Also, he set great store on a man doing right by his family.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased

we shall acquit ourselves with honor, that we may never bring shame upon our faith, our families, or our fellow men.

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay

Ketika aku melihat orang-orang yang berkarakter, yang mereka miliki adalah konsistensi.

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.

In a city where men are killing each other like animals just to make it a happier place, who has the right to stop me from killing myself?

big proclamations about honor are really just excuses invented to let people kill each other with a clear conscience.

It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?

Ka, you see, was one of those moralists who believe that the greatest happiness comes from never doing anything for the sake of personal happiness.

Our ancestors used to torture criminals before they executed them—it's in times like these that one truly understands the importance of tradition.

Nos interesa el límite peligroso de las cosas. El ladrón honesto, el asesino sensible, el ateo supersticioso. ROBERT BROWNING, Apología del obispo Blougram La política en una obra literaria es un tiro de pistola en medio de un concierto, algo grosero pero imposible de ignorar. Estamos a punto de hablar de asuntos muy feos. STENDHAL, La cartuja de Parma