Quotes About Morality

Lovers make their own moral universe

It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world.

O mundo divide-se em pessoas boas e pessoas más. As pessoas boas têm um sono tranquilo. As pessoas más divertem-se muito mais.

Weide will at least have the personal good feeling of having been on the right side of a nasty issue, unlike a great number of people he had tried vainly to persuade who will no doubt be awash in assorted creative rationalizations. If it turns out there is a heaven, I believe Weide will have a good table—in the nonsmoking section.

Indifference to me equals evil.

Soon-Yi was not just a diamond in the rough but round cut and flawless.

The truth is you never know when you have to rely on Aristotle or Confucius when faced with choosing to hit a lamppost or running over a man coming from Zabar's with fresh bagels.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Tú crees que sea pecado comulgar varias veces en un día? Es un abuso, ya sé, pero igual lo emparejas dando más limosna.

La última vez que hice esto tenía un sacerdote enfrente. Y tenía una maleta llenísima de dólares, lista para salvarme del Infierno.

triple cruda: con el arribo del alba, el pecador despierta torturado por la resaca física del ron, la resaca económica correspondiente a los billetes que dilapidó y peor que todo: la hija de puta cruda moral, que a decir de los verdaderos libertinos es privativa de espíritus débiles.

For I believe that the best life is lived by those who take the best care to make themselves as good as possible, and the pleasantest life by those who are most conscious that they are becoming better.

whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

the shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be: and if you observe, you will find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. 

Shamelessness, they hold, treads close on the heels of ingratitude, and thus ingratitude is the ringleader and chief instigator to every kind of baseness.

it is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids;

We're bound to be proud of the way our children turn out if they see nothing unseemly and hear nothing shameful. They, like us, will live in the light of all that's good, and their virtue—like ours—will be their strength.

do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice? It

Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.

Do you think there is anything worse for a man than that which makes him choose what is bad for him instead what is good, and persuades him to cultivate the former and disregard the latter, and compels him to behave in the opposite way to that which is adopted by disciplined people?

You're a good friend, Apollodorus, but would you rather see me put to death justly or unjustly?

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

The main battlefield of good is not the open ground of the publis arena, but the small clearing of each heart.

Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.