Quotes About Morality

Wo die Moral sich nicht überall einnistet. Ich habe einen Sittenrichter geboren.

A sense of share is not a bad moral compass.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeeds somehow made me virtuous.

I made the mistake of thinking that condemning other people's misdeed somehow made me virtuous.

The financial world as moral example, she thought. Well, wonders would never cease

A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.

Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!

Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

Ethos anthropoi daimon--a man's character is his fate.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has not done anything wrong, but has merely demonstrated his smartness.

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.

But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of "the good?

The new sensibility has become, by this very token, praxis: it emerges in the struggle against violence and exploitation where this struggle is waged for essentially new ways and forms of life: negation of the entire Establishment, its morality, culture; affirmation of the right to build a society in which the abolition of poverty and toil terminates in a universe where the sensuous, the playful, the calm, and the beautiful become forms of existence and thereby the Form of the society itself.

Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Government is essentially immoral.