Quotes About Morality

Bad Men Do What Good Men

He had been thinking too of goodies and baddies. If you thought bad things – dreams of cruelty and lust – that didn't make you bad. But if your head was full of civilised thoughts and you spent all day as a torturer … It came down to the fact that you were judged by your actions in society, not by the inside of your head.

Sin and evil weren't black – he'd argued the point with a priest – but were greyly anonymous.

There are worse forms of prostitution than whoring. -Inspector John Rebus

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature—a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. Winwood Reade (1872)

I do not wish to live in a society where you are stoned for adultery. I prefer to live in a society where we get stoned first, and then commit adultery.

I was losing, page by page, the fine rules of thought and deed that I had learned in church, from Henry to the Boy Scout Troop in Rockford. I was sopping up the poison off the street like a sponge.

it is easier to legislate a rule than to develop a value.

To strengthen what is right in a fool is a holy task

Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Death If he is a good man, death will be a release; If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.

No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Bribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Bueno. Muéstrame a una persona que cree que sabe lo que es "bueno" y probablemente seré capaz de mostrarte a una persona horrorosa. Muéstrame a una persona que realmente sabe lo que es "bueno" y te mostraré que casi nunca usa la palabra.

Dicho del Profeta Quienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo

Dicho del Profeta Verdad Decir la verdad a los injustos es la mejor de las guerras santas.

Me conviertes en un pecador si me impides darte hospitalidad.

Charity has been made into a great virtue only because of the low level of human decency.

Quien primero no haya cavado un pozo, no debería robar un minarete.

Si tu deseo de lo "bueno" está basado en la avidez, no es bueno, es avidez.

Si tu deseo de lo 'bueno' está basado en la avidez, no es bueno, es avidez.