Quotes About Morality

What is known to be tyranny to the superior man may appear to be justice to the ordinary one.

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

Cualquier sociedad que ordene a sus miembros adherirse a ambas cosas (cortesía y verdad) es fraudulenta.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Soborno: sustituye a la ley, la cual, a su vez, sustituye a la justicia.

Muerte Si es un buen hombre, la muerte será una liberación; Si es uno malo, liberará a otros de él.

La caridad ha sido convertida en una gran virtud sólo por el bajo nivel de decencia humana.

Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

el problema es que a es calaña ya no les basta con mentir, además quieren disfrazar su mentira de virtud.

Y a veces (¡qué difícil reconocerlo!) nada está tan cerca del bien como el mal.

Quién conoce el bien?. le preguntaron a Dante y él respondió: sólo quien conoce el mal.

TEACHER: Class, someone has stolen my purse out of my desk. It had $100 in it. I know you're all basically good kids, so I'm willing to offer a reward of $10 to whoever returns it. VOICE AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM: I'm offering $20!

Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead

At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.

He would leave a twenty-dollar tip on a fifty-cent breakfast, or simply forget where he had stashed the night's takings, but would chisel his band members out of five bucks if he could.

They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

Vice? Virtue? It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. As Confucius says, 'Don't simply be good. Make good things happen.

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

Integrity has rewards that are more valuable than how many days we spend on earth.

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [ Love's Last Shift ]