Quotes About Morality

We do not tolerate evil in any form. We live a life to counter evil.

You may not be known or popular all over the world, but by doing honorable acts and decent gestures each day you are already famous.

Do what is right. Uphold what is right. Recite your prayer every night. Handle everything with care. Acknowledge everybody's help. Make good memories of yourself to everybody.

There is no such thing as moral standards if you don't believe in morality.

Its a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have.

It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.

Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.

When Roger apologized for the affair, I told him, "It is not for me to judge," Coleman recalled. "I said if I were to be judged on the merits of my life, I would burn an eternity in hell. Roger winced.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

Freedom is not the greatest thing; how we decide to use our freedom is the greatest thing.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

The answer to the nagging conundrum of how a civilized country like Germany could produce the Holocaust is that Germany ceased to be civilized from the moment Hitler came to power.

Peacock in real life undid Shelley's vegetarianism by waving a steak under his nose when he fainted,

when virtue had been declared a crime, there was no refuge even in reticence.

The more nobly behaved the family, the less chance it stood.

What is the use of being moral in a night-cellar, or wise in Bedlam? —WILLIAM HAZLITT,

Apart from the brave few who went underground and fought at the risk of their lives, the French intellectuals gave the Nazis little trouble, and were morally compromised as a consequence.

Mankind in the Christian era possesses one huge advantage over the ancients: a bad conscience. —EGON FRIEDELL,

Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

la novela tiene que ser la fotografía que estereotipe los vicios y las virtudes de un pueblo,

If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

Then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today....