Quotes About Morality

Evil is done by the living.

Anything evil that you do will come back at you.

A century ago, survival was the main event. Longing was an accepted part of existence. Today, the inability to achieve happiness or fit in with the herd is treated as a kind of moral failure.

He explained that ethics are the principles or rules for how we act in the world... 'The thing is, it doesn't matter whether or not (she) had it coming... What does matter is your behavior, not hers. Your ethics, not hers. The way you conduct yourself, not the way she conducts herself... We all must learn to act, not react.

No doubt he is a man of principle,' said Kamren. 'But they are the wrong principles.

Kako da ?ovjek bude zdrav kad moralno pati? Zar može, ako ima osje?aja, ostati miran u ovo naše doba?

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

We do some things because we should, whether it feels good or not. Nonetheless, doing what we should ought not necessarily feel bad.

Under Saddam's ruthless regime, where human rights barely nudged the moral barometer, animals didn't rate at all.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

Sodom and Madonna-ism are two halves of the same movement, the mere tick-tack of lust and asceticism, pietism and pornography.

Todas las acciones están sujetas a órdenes», «Nunca hay que robar al pueblo», «Jamás seas egoísta o injusto»;

Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.