Quotes About Morality

Does he still talk about it?" "No. Is it anything to talk about? Is it anything to be proud of?" "Is it anything to be ashamed of?" "Yes. You know that, don't you?" Carol asked in her even, distinct voice. "In the eyes of the world it's an abomination.

Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to Robert G. Ingersoll because he used his matchless power for the good of man. {Darrow's eulogy for Ingersoll at his funeral}

It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

There is nothing that can tear a person to pieces like religious hypocrisy – teaching one thing and practicing another.

We cannot enter the kingdom of peace with a six-shooter on our hip.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem with regards to oneself is managing to feel what one ought to?

An eye looked over my life. I probably called that eye sometimes "truth", sometimes morality, sometimes human law, sometimes "God", sometimes "myself". For the most part I lived inside a mirror. Two minutes after I was born I had already lost my beginnings.

A ética da moral é mantê-la em segredo. A liberdade é um segredo.

As for that morality of mine, the harsh glory of being alive is horror itself.

Las personas depositan la idea del pecado en el sexo. Pero es muy inocente e infantil ese pecado. El infierno mismo es el del amor.

Y yo le dije que sí, porque hay momentos en que aunque uno no crea ni en el cielo ni en la vida después de la muerte, es mejor mentir. Le mentí a él y me mentí a mí.

He didn't tell me who had the abortion, Mum, just where. And that isn't covered by the confidentiality of confession?

tuvo que meter las manos en el barro, en la inmundicia, para hacer lo que había que hacer, sin cometer ni delito ni pecado, ésa soy yo.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.