Quotes About Morality

But in the month when this confession begins, my way of seeing the world still seemed more of a virtue than a danger, which is how some dangers first appear.

Gradually, as my bruised forehead healed, and as I absorbed my own words, I developed a growing sympathy for the man in these pages, the intelligence operative of doubtful intelligence. Was he a fool or too smart for his own good? Had he chosen the right side or the wrong side of history? And were not these the questions we should all ask ourselves? Or was it only me and myself who should be so concerned?

He was more embarrassed and discreet about sex than about things I thought more difficult, like killing people, which pretty much defined the history of Catholicism, where

It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends. Wouldn't you agree, Commandant?

I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word "murder" made us mumble as much as the word "masturbation.

The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts. Have

He winced. I had hit him where it hurt, in the solar plexus of his conscience, where everyone who was an idealist was vulnerable. Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.

But the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do, I went on, is to actually do the right thing.

Americans are a confused people because they can't admit this contradiction. They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a secular justice where human beings are presumed innocent. You can't have both.

Crianças precisam de orientação e roteiros morais, beneficiando-se imensamente com o exemplo de adultos que falam a verdade e agem com força moral.

Beauty and the Beast" embraces one last important moral truth: a person's decisions in life will define what kind of person she becomes. In this sense also our destinies are not fated: we decide our own destinies.

The annual budget is a much better reflection of a country's morality than its constitution. You put more money into repression, police, military... and so little to taking care of human troubles

appearances can be deceptive and the dividing line between good and bad is very thin indeed.

A devil is the one who knows what is right but will not do it.

A person who has not done any good in his life dies like a beast.

Doing good to the devil is like planting a seed in the sea.

Get the money honestly if you can, if not, any idea will do.

He that is cruel to his own will not be cruel to others.

He who doesn't go to temple in bad weather will go to hell when it is fair.

He who has no shame before the world has no fear before God.

He who is accustomed to evil is offended by good.

He who steals in order to give to God can only get advice from the devil.

He who thinks to deceive God has already deceived himself.