Quotes About Morality

If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

To me religion is about our dignity not our depravity

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull.

I would have liked you better as a criminal or a terrorist than as a militant in the cause of happiness.

She's one of those people who think happiness is legitimate.

Pero ¿por qué una virgen es pura y otra mujer no?

Talvez o sentimento do mal tivesse ficado anestesiado, confundido com costumes e ordens sociais

But could there be anything uglier than an old man lying the night through beside a girl put to sleep, unwaking? Had he not come to this house seeking the ultimate in the ugliness of old age?

and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can't cross.

then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness—or potential for goodness—a person possessed.

Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.

Not even the Catholics would forgive them for it (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate politicians give out promises and whores give out)

En este caso, el problema radica en que el hombre es un animal moral abandonado en un universo amoral y condenado a una existencia finita y sin otro significado que perpetuar el ciclo natural de la especie. Es imposible sobrevivir en un estado prolongado de realidad, al menos para un ser humano. Pasamos buena parte de nuestras vidas soñando, sobre todo cuando estamos despiertos.

Some of these wall-eyed fellers who look jest as if they was walkin' in the shadow of Christ himself, right down the sunny road, now they can think of things en' do things that are really hell-bent.

Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the nature of his effort.

You play grown-up long enough and you lose your perspective on right and wrong

A moral compass does not cease to function because one's surroundings are new and strange, or else it is no compass at all.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there