Quotes About Morality

Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes? That's

lie don't seem a lie anymore when it's meant to save a dog, and right and wrong's all mixed up in my head.

They say that the spiritual path is straight and narrow, but I used to wonder about that. I used to think that the spiritual path was about being good. It was hard to be good because there were only a few ways of being good. I have since learned the opposite. The spiritual path is straight and narrow because all it takes is moving into a lie to make you absolutely step off of it.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

C'est la pratique de la torture qui permet de distinguer à coup sûr l'homme de l'animal.

I don't care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don't really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society.

If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.

And the worst of it was, Irene could not claim with any certainty that this savage retribution was wrong. She had always thought other people would and should suffer for their callousness, but had never realized that she was as guilty as they and deserved similar treatment.

Kötülük ölümden daha h?zl? koÅŸar.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.

The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse

What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?

it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.