Quotes About Morality

What is right, what is morally just, cannot be silenced or kept in the shadows. There is no stronger spotlight than the truth.

Akki kis chakki ka khate ho aata ki apne ko bimaar batane ki bhi kar sakte ho nautanki. Besharmi ki bhi had hoti hain

Die echte christliche Verantwortung umfaßt das Ganze des weltlichen Handelns, sie läßt sich keineswegs auf irgendeinen isolierten religiösen Bereich beschränken.

Nicht ein Gesetz, sondern der lebendige Gott und der lebendige Mensch, wie er mir in Jesus Christus begegnet, ist Ursprung und Ziel meines Gewissens.

Unrecht leiden schadet keinem Christen. Aber Unrecht tun schadet.

Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom.

But let me be clear: What Indiana ultimately showed me is that no one person is in charge of the moral compass of a business. The phone calls and messages from my employees proved that if the leadership won't act, they'll have to face the bayonets poking up from below. Gone are the days when companies can recruit and retain top talent without upholding a commitment to values.

Les méchants faits détruisent les belles théories.

to the pure all things are pure,137 that the simple and upright soul sees evil in nothing since it resides only in impure hearts, not in inanimate objects.

Ä°nsan bir kere yalan söylemeye baÅŸlad? m? nerede duraca??n? bilmez. (Le Voleur d'ombres)

For example instead of "Thou shall not kill," try "Thou shall not murder." There's a big difference between those two, and you had better learn it. If you believe in the not-kill part, you're fucked if you meet someone who doesn't. If you adhere to the not-murder view, however, you can, if necessary, kill someone.

We're harsh judges on the bad behavior of others, but lawyers for our own.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

La moralité n'est bien souvent qu'une affaire d'éclairage et tu es le gardien de ton propre phare. [in Éléments pour une éthique]

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

En cuanto somos desdichados, nos volvemos morales.

I saw that what had appeared to me to be not worth twenty francs when it had been offered to me for twenty francs in the house of ill fame, where it was then for me simply a woman desirous of earning twenty francs, might be worth more than a million, more than one's family, more than all the most coveted positions in life if one had begun by imagining her to embody a strange creature, interesting to know, difficult to seize and to hold.

As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.

each one of us is not a single person, but contains many persons who have not all the same moral value

As profession recognizes profession, so, too, does vice.

Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly benevolence...

What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.