Quotes About Morality

A vicious person, always affecting the same air of virtue before people whom he is anxious to keep from having any suspicion of his vices, has no register, no gauge at hand from which he may ascertain how far those vices (their continuous growth being imperceptible by himself) have gradually segregated him from the normal ways of life

And with the intermittent coarseness that reappeared in him as soon as he was no longer unhappy and the level of his morality dropped accordingly, he exclaimed to himself: "To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type!

Choderlos de Laclos,

At that moment I would have undertaken a mission to make Robert break with his mistress as readily as I had been to make him go and live with her permanently a few hours earlier. In the one case, Saint-Loup would have regarded me as a false friend; in the other, his family would have called me his evil genius. Yet, in that interval of a few hours, I was the same man.

No hay nadie, por muy virtuoso que sea, que por causa de la complejidad de las circunstancias, no pueda llegar algún día a vivir en familiaridad con el vicio que más rigurosamente condena.

?nsan mutsuz oldu?u andan itibaren ahlakç? olur.

And, till we came to Doncières, M. de Charlus, without any fear of shocking his audience, would speak sometimes in the plainest terms of morals which, he declared, for his own part he did not consider either good or evil. He did this from cunning, to shew his breadth of mind, convinced as he was that his own morals aroused no suspicion in the minds of the faithful.

We pardon the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass. It was the unalterable facts of duty, love, and conscience. But our world had gone so far north that the compass could make no sense of it, could only spin hopelessly in it binnacle. North had melted right off the map.

Every morning you slunk out of our house after breakfast, leaving behind the books and the smell of coffee....and like a spy going deep undercover into enemy territory, you entered a world that was a terrible inversion of everything I had taught you to value: a world shaped by toughness, boastful ignorance, firm gender stereotypes, underachievement, and the threat of violence.

poor people are presented in the Theology of Liberation as decent, that is, asexual or monogamous heterosexual spouses united in the holy sacrament of marriage, people of faith and struggle who do not masturbate, have lustful thoughts at prayer times, cross-dress, or enjoy leather practices. However, if we keep falsifying human relationships in the name not only of God (a habit to which we have grown accustomed) we must remember that we do it also in our love for justice.

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head. Sheri—one

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head.

paying any unnecessary

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.

Qué le ha pasado al pecado? Ya no está incluido en el índice de temas importantes a tratar. Aparentemente ahora hay otras cuestiones más relevantes y más convenientes: prosperidad, estrategias de «iglecrecimiento», declaración positiva, autoestima, múltiples seminarios sobre diversos temas, pero poco acerca de la santidad y de vivir apartado del pecado.

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

There is most joy in virtue when 'tis hardest won.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed Victa Caton.

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.

Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey God.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.