Quotes About Morality

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of thinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist.

It was the shame we knew so well, the shame that drowned us after the selections, and every time we had to watch, or submit to, some outrage: the shame that the Germans did not know, that the just man experiences at another man's crime; the feeling of guilt that such a crime should exist, that it should have been introduced irrevocably into the world of things that exist, and that his will for good should have proved too weak or null, and should not have availed in defense.

Today, I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our own, something and someone still pure and whole, not corrupt, not savage, extraneous to hatred and terror; something difficult to define, a remote possibility of good, but for which it was worth surviving.

But here in the Lager there are no criminals nor madmen; no criminals because there is no moral law to contravene, no madmen because we are wholly devoid of free will, as our every action is, in time and place, the only conceivable one.

no hay vanidad mayor que esforzarse en tragarse enteros los sistemas morales elaborados por los demás, bajo otros cielos.

Nor had many words been wasted here on teaching us to defend ourselves against acids, caustics, fires and explosions: it seemed that, following the crude morality of the institute, the work of natural selection could be counted on to choose among us those most fit for physical and professional survival.

otro, a costa de otro; podría haber suplantado a alguien, es decir, en realidad matado a alguien. Los «salvados» de Auschwitz no eran los mejores, los predestinados al bien, los portadores de un mensaje; cuanto yo había visto y vivido me demostraba precisamente lo contrario.

Und es kam die Nacht, und man wurde gewahr, dass menschliche Augen so eine Nacht nicht hätten erleben und überleben dürfen. Alle empfanden dies: Und keiner von den Wachen, kein Italiener und kein Deutscher, traute sich mitanzusehen, was Menschen tun, die wissen, dass sie sterben müssen.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

Dostojewski schrieb einmal: Ist Gott erst tot, ist alles erlaubt. Das mag zutreffen. Aber, wie die Geschichte lehrt, gilt auch der Satz: mit Berufung auf Gott hat man sich schon alles erlaubt.

Nietzsche criticized the high esteem accorded to consciousness, particularly the consequences of Socrates' disastrous idea that 'everything must be conscious to be good.

It signifies that the great judge of the dead looks down on men to see that justice is done and that truth prevails. So I commend you to the good Osiris;

One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!

Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.

That's the horrible fact of sinners. We're indistinguishable from the righteous.

Piety was simple, and the World, woefully complex. What was virtuous, what was holy: these were verities that only the simple and the enslaved could know with certainty.

Some starve. Some eat. Disparity is simply the order of things. It's only when fat men make sauce out of other's starvation that it becomes a sin.

After all, spies were little different from whores. Sorcerers less so.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality, but salvation by law.

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.