Quotes About Morality

But what was it?" "There was a woman upstairs who did illegal operations, abortions. . . . That was what stopped up the plumbing.

But wilde Ambition loves to slide, not stand; And Fortunes Ice prefers to Vertues Land

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.

Something has gone wrong in us, very wrong indeed. So wrong that we have to be told that joy is found not in having another man's wife, but in having our own. But the point is not the law; the point is the joy.

When it comes to the moral question, it is not simply whether we say yes or no to desire, but always what we do with desire. Christianity recognizes that we have desire gone mad within us. But it does not seek to rectify the problem by killing desire; rather, it seeks the healing of desire, just as it seeks the healing of every other part of our human being.

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness.

This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not. So you ride your bike to work, or drive a hybrid car—but

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.

there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

The truth was she couldn't do ugly things. She was too beautiful.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

The Choice Spare him till he dies. Torment him till he lives.

It seemed sadistic, this last wasteland of days. It was as if Conchis, with Alison's connivance, proceeded by some outmoded Victorian dietetic morality—one couldn't have more jam, the sweetness of events, until one ate a lot more bread, the dry stodge of time.

Asta a fost tragedia. Nu c? un om a avut curajul de a fi tic?los, dar c? milioane de oameni nu au avut curajul de a fi buni.

Bir zaman insanlar kendi hazlar?n? yaratabileceÄŸine inan?yordu; ÅŸimdi onlar?n bedelini ödemesi gerektiÄŸine inan?yor. Sanki çiçekler art?k tarlalarda ve bahçelerde deÄŸil de; sadece çiçekçi dükkanlar?nda yetiÅŸiyormuÅŸ gibi.

There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply get done by the social machine, and one can keep one's clear conscience and one's moral indignation unsullied.

Ever since the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had first reached him in California, Brecht had connected Galileo's caving-in before the Inquisition as the great and perhaps ineradicable moral blot on the history of physics and the developments in modern physics that led to the atomic and hydrogen bombs.

Try to leave one alive… … but do not try too hard. (The Life-Taker)

MRS. PEACHUM How the mother is to be pitied who has handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars and lectures of morality are nothing to them – they break through them all.

Murder is as fashionable a crime as a man can be guilty of.

money is made for the free-hearted and generous, and where is the injury of taking from another, what he hath not the heart to make use of?