Quotes About Morality

The Bible is a rock of diamonds, a chain of pearls, the sword of the Spirit; a chain by which the Christian sails to eternity; the map by which he daily walks; the sundial by which he sets his life; the balance in which he weighs his actions. —THOMAS WATSON

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

If ... the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I am an atheist.

Anlams?zl?k habis bir sözcüktür. En uç a??r?l?klara bile hak tan?yan bir serzeniÅŸi adland?r?r. Bu nedenle tehlikeli de bir sözcüktür. Sadece bir eksiklikliÄŸi ima etmez, ayn? zamanda bir k?s?tlamay?, asli bir ÅŸeyin çal?nd???n? düÅŸündürür, ki bu da bir suçlu aramay? tümüyle hakl? k?lar, eÄŸer ortada bir suç varsa tabii.

I will bow myself before him who is influenced by a noble conviction, and who only desires that which is conducive to good, be he prince or man of the people.

Not that she's a political animal, she's just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she's of the view that you don't bring children into the world to have them shot.

Imam gospodaricu koju sam dužan da slušam, ona vlada mnom, vama, svetom, ?ak i ovim današnjim svetom napolju, a ta gospodarica je pravda. U nju sam oduvek verovao, verujem i danas, i pravda je jedini putokaz mog postupanja...

Qu'un seul être souffre injustement, et que, pouvant y changer quelque chose, je ne le fasse pas, parce que je suis lâche et que j'aime trop ma tranquillité...

Salg?n Bizans'? 4 ay etkiledi. Günde 5-10 bin ölü vard?: "Sonunda mezar kaz?c? bulunamay?nca, kalelerdeki kulelerin çat?lar? ç?kar?ld?, cesetler koyulup çat? tekrar kapat?ld?." Cenazeler gemilere koyulup denize terk ediliyordu. "Salg?n bittikten sonra ahlâks?zl?k ve sapk?nl?k o kadar artt? ki, salg?n geriye sadece günahkârlar? b?rakt? sanard?n?z.

No characters in 'Stay Close ' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Hervey was not praising the city but suggesting that things like adultery and bad mothering existed in the white downtown aristocratic neighborhoods, and not just among the poor blacks who inhabited Heyward's novels Mamba's Daughters and Porgy.

Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservative to anarchist—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Orwell, of course: Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservative to anarchist—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.