Quotes About Morality

Those who try to kill the body violate God's law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God's law, even though their crime is less visible to others. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

It doesn't matter who's correct, what matters is who's right.

We are all the same instincts-- Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less.

Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see that whold and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guild, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right. - Mata Hari

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Do not do to another that which you would abhor being done to you; that is the law. All the rest is legal commentary.

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Si mucha gente piensa que una cosa está bien, es correcta, entonces esa cosa pasa a estar bien y ser correcta.

Good & Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more ang nothing less.

The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.

It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,...It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

What she was saying reminded me of the scene in Gone With the Wind, where the town's most successful madam is trying to make a contribution to the war effort, and the proper slave-owning Confederate ladies refuse it on the grounds that her money is tainted. That always cracks me up. She earns her money with sex, and they earn their money breeding people, and her money's no good.

God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.

We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs (Buck, 105).

We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike.

What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender.

And will you understand me when I say I would fight to keep you free from such beliefs because for you they would be false, and at the same time I would fight to keep my mother in those same beliefs because for her they are true and necessary? She would be lost without them, for by them she has lived and by them she must die. But you and l—we must have our own beliefs to live and die in

Yuan could not for his life say, "This man is rich and evil, and this man is poor and good," and so he was spoiled for any cause-making, however great the cause.

This seems right to them today and that tomorrow and they do not know that one man's mind cannot say what is the true right for another. No, in their pride of a little learning they rush out to do evil

Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed.