Quotes About Morality

I don't believe in working in any location, in any environment, for any people with a lack of integrity.

Every wrong should be made right, and no right should be forgotten.

This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.

There are two public prosecutors, and one of them is at your door, punishing crimes against society; the other is nature herself. She is familiar with all those vices that escape the law.

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a ja nie lubi? k?amstwa, chyba ?e jest u?yteczne i nieodzowne.

Nie lubiÄ™ mówi? o ?yjÄ…cych; zawsze siÄ™ czÅ'owiek musi rumieni? za to, co o nich powie dobrego czy zÅ'ego: dobrego, które popsujÄ…, zÅ'ego, które naprawiÄ….

Tout a son vrai loyer dans ce monde. Il y a deux procureurs généraux, l'un à votre porte qui châtie les délits contre la société; la nature est l'autre. Celle-ci connaît de tous les vices qui échappent aux lois.

You spit on a petty thief, but you can't withhold a sort of respect from a great criminal. His courage bowls you over. His brutality makes you shudder. What you value in everything is consistency of character.

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

Well, you were sad about the kids for a while, for a month, two months, three months. You're sad about the kids, sad about the animals, you don't do the women, you don't kill the animals, but after that you realize this is a war zone and everybody here lives in it. You don't care whether these people live or die tomorrow, you don't care whether you yourself live or die tomorrow, you kick the children aside, you do the women, you shoot the animals.

Promiscuity' - a word best defined as anyone who has more sex than you.

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

I don't believe he casts people into eternal flame for fornication, as you pointed out. Or for believing in a version of him that is a little off the mark. I believe—or, I want to believe—he considers the worst sins to be those we commit in his name.

It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else.

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them. Coronado: Stories

Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.

The worst of us has good in him. The best of us has pure fucking evil in his heart. We battle. It's all we can do.

We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' He solemnly made the sign of the cross. 'But when people starve and have nowhere to go, where would you have them end up?' 'Not on my land,' Joe said. 'But it is not your land. It's God's. You are renting it. This rum? This life?' He patted his chest. 'We are all just renting from God.

I just notice people sometimes mistake their life choices for their moral ones.

You see the worst in the best of people," she said, shaking her head, "and the best in the worst of people.

But what? No one's good, no one's bad. Everyone's just trying to make their way.

People who know the difference between right and wrong do the wrong thing all the time. You know why? Because they can.