Quotes About Morality

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Superintendent Stanislaus Oates of the Central Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, was one of those happy people who retain throughout their lives a childlike belief in a sharp dividing line between that which is wrong and that which is right. It is this peculiarity which is common to all the great English policemen and is probably the basis of their reputation both for integrity and for stupidity.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

When Uncle Hubert spoke of a fellow human being as poor, he meant to convey that either by accident or intention they had done something wrong.

I want to do what's right. But how can I, when I am faced with only impossible choices?

Regularly denounce Caucasians, whose behavior toward us, and all dark-skinned people, proved they did not morally deserve their privilege. We

While you wait for a grander plan to emerge in your head, a thousand small choices make up your life, none of them honorable.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.

It is up to us to choose what is right. No one can make us eat a lie," she answers.

The world isn't large enough for heroes and monsters at once. There's too much danger of confusion between the two categories.

Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

The fight between them had to be according to the laws of the wild: the stronger would win. For good or for evil. Therefore, it wouldn't be right to attack Nana in one of her weak moments. If you really want to conquer evil, you have to face all its power and potential: you can't use trickery.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

Will you still walk with me?' 'Would you walk with a bad angel?

some men warm themselves at others' sins.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

The moral degradation of the slave is, above all things, the weight that opposes the progress of humanity - humanity striving to rise and held back by this great burden. The cry of redemption speaks far more clearly for the souls of men than for their bodies.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

Religion is the bulwark of civilization. A people who believe nothing and therefore fear nothing will create anarchy, for themselves and others.

As always, aesthetics and ethics dance a tango in dramas.

Money buys everything, if there is no dignity.

The true thinker is on the side of justice, of reason, of life.

I inwardly did nothing.O Iscariot-like crime!