Quotes About Morality

Wealthy are those who walk the path of righteousness.

Your worth is calculated by the way you live life and how you respond to it.

When we do what is right, we don't only benefit ourselves but we leave something behind that next generation will learn from.

Lying is a necessary evil, the truth may set you free but it could also be your prison.

There will be a time where we must choose between what is easy and what is right.

When you are hooked between doing what you want or doing what others want you to do, just try and do the Right Thing.

Live in such a good way that if the devil happened to come to your way, he would change his direction.

In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.

What is right is seldom popular and what is popular is seldom right.

As you continue to successfully make each day better than the last, choosing to make great decisions that are not only ambitious, but ethical and morally right as well, things will really start to get simpler.

Is one life worth more than another? I have never thought so.

He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis. I cannot save them all. I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

You speak no honest speeches from pure heart. You do no noble deeds in the gleaming sunlight.

What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man's sons.

He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

The swollen bellies that followed were not a thing of shame; they were profit: more slaves. These unions were not always rape; sometimes there was mutual satisfaction and even affection. At least that is what the men who spoke of them believed.

We have fled great evil, and to escape it we have done great evil. We are tainted.

Tidak setiap orang yang berlaku proletar adalah seorang proletar, dan tidak setiap orang yang berperilaku baik adalah seorang aristokrat

Once you're a Catholic, you're always a Catholic—in terms of your feelings of guilt and remorse and whether you've sinned or not. Sometimes I'm wracked with guilt when I needn't be, and that, to me, is left over from my Catholic upbringing. Because in Catholicism you are born a sinner and you are a sinner all of your life. No matter how you try to get away from it, the sin is within you all the time.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. Gods going to have his revenge.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.