Quotes About Morality

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Why do we kill people, who have killed people, to show that killing people is wrong?

In the extravagance of her evil she has brought shame both on herself and on all women who will come after her, even on one who is virtuous.

And empty words are evil.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.

Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée.

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.

Pourquoi deux mois de prison au dandy qui, dans une nuit, ôte à un enfant la moitié de sa fortune, et pourquoi le bagne au pauvre diable qui vole un billet de mille francs avec les circonstances aggravantes ? Voilà vos lois. Il

La vida sencilla y mecánica conduce a una cordura insensata ahogando nuestra inteligencia con el trabajo, en tanto que la vida pasada en el vacío de las abstracciones o en los abismos del mundo moral lleva a una loca cordura. En una palabra: matar los sentimientos para vivir hasta muy viejos o morir jóvenes aceptando el martirio de las pasiones. Esta es nuestra sentencia.

So an honest man is the common enemy.

Every day, before our eyes, a moral phenomenon of amazing profundity takes place which is, nevertheless, so simple as never to be noticed.

Toplumu, aç?kgöz davran?p herkesin zarar?na kendi mutlulu?unu kurma kuram?yla aç?klamak y?k?c? bir ö?retidir,bunun a??r ç?kar?mlar?, yasaya, insanlara ya da bireye verdi?i zarar? bile belli etmeden, gizlice elde edilen her ?eyin iyi ve uygun biçimde kazan?ld???na inand?r?r insan?.

The idea originated in a comparison between Humanity and Animality

If you're unfortunate enough to lift some trifle or other, you're paraded on the square in front of the law courts like a freak. If you steal a million, you're pointed out in the salons as one of the Virtues. You pay thirty million to the Police and to the Law to maintain those moral standards there. A fine mess!

Les avares ne croient point à une vie à venir, le présent est tout pour eux. Cette réflexion jette une horrible clarté sur l'époque actuelle, où, plus qu'en aucun autre temps, l'argent domine les lois, la politique et les mœurs.

He recognized the world for what it is - a place where laws and morality have no power over the rich - and he saw in wealth the ultima ratio mundi.

Quién decidirá lo que es más horrible: corazones resecos o cráneos vacíos? La