Quotes About Morality

If Chamberlain was right and honorable in appeasing Hitler in September 1938 by sacrificing Czechoslovakia, was Stalin wrong and dishonorable in appeasing the Fuehrer a year later at the expense of Poland, which had shunned Soviet help anyway?

To Hegel the State is all, or almost all. Among other things, he says, it is the highest revelation of the "world spirit"; it is the "moral universe"; it is "the actuality of the ethical idea… ethical mind… knowing and thinking itself"; the State "has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State… for the right of the world spirit is above all special privileges…

Three youths in Hanover who snatched a lady's handbag in the black-out have been sentenced to death.

Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.

Believe me, there's nothing so terrible that someone won't support it.

Devils and Nazis don't work well together.

I mean I know some of this lot are just villains, you know, just bad boys, but it all comes down to the god stuff in the end.

The first couple of times she had come here, she had been sure that he changed overnight, that the shards of physiognomy that made up his whole reorganized when no one was looking. She became frightened of her commission. She wondered hysterically if it was like a task in a moral children's tale, if she was to be punished for some nebulous sin by striving to freeze in time a body in flux, forever too afraid to say anything, starting each day from the beginning all over again.

If one death'll stop ten, ain't it better? If two deaths'll save a city?

Do not consider any vice as trivial, and therefore practise it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant, and therefore neglect it.

The man of first rate excellence is virtuous in spite of instruction; he of the middle class is so after instruction; the lowest order of men are vicious in spite of instruction.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so.

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes

Kötü, hemen hemen her defas?nda, niçin 'iyi'den daha güçlü olarak ortaya ç?k?yor ?

Ee, o?lum, paran?n hüküm sürdü?ü yerde, güzel söze ve güzelli?e yer kalmaz.

Perfect morality can be declared and lived up to only by him who has sought to live and discover his real identity with the Self, which is ONE-WITHOUT-A-SECOND, EVERYWHERE, IN ALL BEINGS AND FORMS.

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with virtue, a harmony pervades. VIII.

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.