Quotes About Morality

Además, y a esta altura ¿quién no tiene culpa? ¿Quién puede vivir, en este país, en este mundo, en este tipo, de a cuerdo a sus principios, a sus normas, a su mora, cuando en realidad son otros quienes dictan los principios, la moral y las normas?

Todo depende de qué entendés por incorrecto".

Un hombre que usa su silencio casi como un escudo y su negativa casi como un arma, un hombre que prefiere la muerte a la traición

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.

his conscience was at war with all his aristocratic upbringing. Gentlemen never apologized.

Gossip is the story of our lives," she said.``It is the way a society works out how it is to behave. Our manners, our morals,our mores

There has to be something wrong with a system that means you can take guilt on and off like an overcoat.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are to hire a soapbox instead.

That no matter what happens, loving someone to the best of your ability is the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do.

Never, ever lie, unless it's to spare someone's feelings or to weasel out of something you really don't want to do, but only if not doing that something will not result in bodily or even psychic harm to another human being, unless that human being is exceptionally mean in which case minor psychic harm is permissible"—my

very poor men are seldom bad. And that very bad men are seldom poor.

Innocence and guilt are legal concepts which have little relevance to the political world,

Why do some Germans become Nazis, and others resist?' 'You know the answer, darling,' Heidi said, putting her arm around Lola. 'A few are monsters, the rest look away.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

The True measure of a person's success is to be a person of value.' I knew people of value, people who kept their promises, people who were kind, people who were loyal.

Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Some people don't realize there are inevitable wars that just have to be fought. Pacifism isn't always noble, and it isn't always intelligent. You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Americans claimed to be following a higher law, even when this higher law only turned out to be a personal preference.

In a word, the basic principle of the Scottish philosophy — that people could reason naturally from the evidence of their own consciousness to the existence of God and the validity of traditional morality — had become very widespread by the early nineteenth century.

When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.

Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.