Quotes About Morality

Si j'étais le soleil, je chercherais un autre endroit pour illuminer, un endroit où les gens n'utiliseraient pas ma lumière pour faire des choses horribles.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Truth must be integrated with love; morality is not whole without it. Love is the greatest strength of the powerless. Unity founded on love will never be coercion; power guided by love will never be violence. Love is all-powerful and will even overcome hatred. And only love can do this!

We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions-if they are to be moral-is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.

I am not interested in why man commits evil; I want to know why he does good.

I must emphasize and explain repeatedly the moral dimensions of all social life, and point out that morality is, in fact, hidden in everything. And this is true; whenever I encounter a problem in my work and try to get to the bottom of it, I always discover some moral aspect, be it apathy, unwillingness to recognize personal error or guilt, reluctance to give up certain positions and the advantages flowing from them, envy, an excess of self-assurance, or whatever.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by se mÄ›l chovat tak, jak si myslí, že by se mÄ›li chovat vÅ¡ichni.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

Bounteous, and holy, just, and wise, Alone most fair to all men's eyes? Devoid of envy, firm, and sage

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

Everybody's got the right to go to hell in the handcart of their choice.

Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating.

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

And our conscience is getting old, its an old woman, and no one looks at it anymore.

A man must live with sin, or he is no man

They're clinking glasses and knocking it back to their hearts' content. Tastes so good they can't stop. Ain't you heard the old saying: 'Money comes from God and the Devil collects it?' Well, the Devil's collecting his share now.

In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. " "Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well." "Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.

In the old days conscience was very important. If someone tried living without one, it was obvious right away, everyone lived an open life then. There were all kinds of people then, too. Some would have been happy to follow their conscience, but what do you do if you're born without one? You can't buy it with money.

In the old days, you could see it: whether a person had it or not. Those who had it were conscientious, those without it were conscienceless. And now only the devil can tell, everything is mixed up in one pile. They bring it up needlessly with every word, mauling the poor thing so much it's barely alive.

One need not fear the devil, but rather the perverse tendencies in oneself!

you only know that which is verified by the agreement of all forms of experience in its totality—experience of the senses, moral experience, psychic experience, the collective experience of other seekers for the truth, and finally the experience of those whose knowing merits the title of wisdom and whose striving has been crowned by the title of saint.