Quotes About Morality

If I've learned one thing, it's that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything's mixed. There's no absolute good and there's no absolute evil. There's just a lot of confusion.

the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side. That

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In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pinstriped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

There are three things I never saw her do: tell a lie, be unkind, or arrive on time.

Lines from William Blake's Jerusalem came to mind: He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.

The murderous, self-elected, megalomaniacal head of state with the morals of a fruit fly is an obscene feature of African life that is not likely to disappear.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled;

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

such modesty and shame in a whore! Just

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means...

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

Isn't wine prohibited here? the boy asked. It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights...

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Given the right circumstances, every human being n this earth would be willing to commit evil.

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.