Quotes About Morality

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Be good or don't get caught.

The world's black and white, good and bad, no matter what you hear. The people who say it isn't have already chosen black.

Just because it is legal to do, it does not make it an ethical, honorable, moral or professional choice.

Just because you have not been caught for doing it yet, does not make what you are doing legal.

Profit at the expense of no one.

I did my job," the lawyer said. "The sworn oath of the mediocre," Father Bobby said.

All money is blood money.

Cuando un hombre tiene que abusar de la mentira para cumplir con su deber puede estar seguro de que anda equivocado de verdad o de deber.

Immanuel Kant, autor subversivo en tiempos de sinrazón

El alma es la suma de las cosas que uno ha vivido antes de hacerse un canalla escéptico" La flaqueza del bolchevique, capítulo XI

what's hard to stomach, what's really, really difficult to absorb, is how good people, people you love—friends, parents, children, lovers—do truly terrible things. And how small lies become so big, little snowballs growing into deadly avalanches. And how turning a blind eye over time to seemingly small things can contribute to something so terribly heinous.

Prosecution screwed up. I didn't. Hey, don't look at me like that, it's what I get paid the big bucks for—getting the law right." She reaches for her drink and leans back in her chair. "I'm no arbiter of morals. I just work within the letter of law.

Gout, I understand, has reformed a great many rogues.

I have always believed that anyone who must violate the law to achieve his purposes must lack either intelligence or imagination, probably both.

His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.

Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the

Perhaps he will say, 'That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was that practice given up, I wonder?

Catholic School–Induced Conscience (CSIC)

It seemed that unbeknownst to her father, the lecherous bishop had chased Clio for the entire previous week and had foolishly cornered her on the staircase, where he stole a kiss and squeezed her small breasts. So when it came time to doctor him, she had smiled sweetly and stitched up his wound in the shape of three sixes, the sign of the devil.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. —Oscar Wilde

In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception": if a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex.

Wow. He's perfect for politics. He's got that lying, cheating, stealing thing down.

JiminyCricket