Quotes About Morality

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

80. What is God? The immutable or unalterable good. 81. What is man? An unchangeable evil.

For great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.

The bread court does not deliberate, it punishes. It knows no mitigation, it needs no legal code. It is a law unto itself, because the hunger angel is also a thief who steals the brain. Bread justice has no prologue or epilogue, it is only here and now. Totally transparent, or totally mysterious. In any case, the violence meted out by bread justice is different from hungerless violence. You cannot approach the bread court with conventional morality.

The 16 characteristics of psychopaths: 1. Intelligent 2. Rational 3. Calm 4. Unreliable 5. Insincere 6. Without shame or remorse 7. Having poor judgment 8. Without capacity for love 9. Unemotional 10. Poor insight 11. Indifferent to the trust or kindness of others 12. Overreactive to alcohol 13. Suicidal 14. Impersonal sex life 15. Lacking long-term goals 16. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on the earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Often a whole community together suffers in consequence of a bad man who does wrong and contrives evil

Badness can be got easily and in shoals; the road to her is smooth, and she lives very near us. But between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows;

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

Censorship is serious and drastic business; it should never set merely upon guesswork and more particularly not upon the guesses of men so staunch in morals that they are obviously of distant kin to the rest of humanity.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said:"His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.

He served his god so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell.

But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.

No rational man could worship a God so simply vengeful

Thomas More syas that the imperial troops, for their enjoyment, are roasting live babies on spits. Oh, he would! says Thomas Cromwell. Listen, soldiers don't do that. They're too busy carrying away everything they can turn into ready money.

A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs.