Quotes About Morality

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

A character is what he does.

I think it is easier to do bad things than to do good things. And there is something in that basic fact, some little clue to the meaning of the universe.

We have to be taught to be good. It doesn't come natural.

What people believe is more important than how they look, what their skills are, or their degree of passion.

Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting.

Do you understand the game you're playing? Or are you, just like us, prostituting your feelings, conscience, duty? But then we shall never forgive you for that, never ever. . . .30

the emphasis should be on fairness and integrity.

I've known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy, He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.

Three things are required of man—to worship the gods, to do no evil, and to maintain manly behavior.

Why bother to put the boy who broke into a house in jail when the man who stole billions from the health system is named ambassador to the country to which he had been sending the money for years?

O tempora, o mores

even the worst men wanted to be perceived as better than they were. How else could hypocrisy have risen to such delirious levels?

Helmut thought himself above common morality. Or perhaps he thought he'd managed to create his own, different from ours, better.

She reminds me a bit of those women in nineteenth-century novels, interested in the moral improvement of their inferiors,' she said.

It seems to me it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference," he said. "Between what?" "The criminal and the wrong." "Why do you think that is, Guido?" "I'm not sure. Perhaps because, as you said before, we don't believe in the old things anymore, and we haven't found anything new, anything else, to believe in.

Cicero's Against Verres and its denunciation of a corrupt official, Brunetti's

Brunetti picked up his and took a small sip. 'I'm probably quoting him badly, but somewhere he says that the laws of the state will take care of public crimes, and that's why we need religion, so that we can believe divine justice will take care of private crime.

love trumped principle. Paola tossed out these things

It's a terrible thing, what we did," said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it." "Well, of course, I do too," said Henry matter-of-factly. "But not bad enough to want to go to jail for it." Francis snorted and poured himself another shot of whiskey and drank it straight off. "No," he said. "Not that bad.

good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions.

I mean, this man was not /Voltaire/ we killed.

my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good. And

It's a terrible thing, what we did," said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it.