Quotes About Morality

How could he marry a sinful woman who would

To have been with a man without marrying is a sin in the eyes of God. Where is this man? Why must Isak pay for your sin?

Yumi felt that her three elder half sisters were as sexually indiscriminate and common as barn animals.

Quieres ver a un hombre muy malo? Haz que tenga más éxito del que nunca había imaginado.

mas um Deus que fizesse tudo que julgamos correto e bom não seria o criador do universo. Seria nossa marionete. Não seria Deus.

people are rotten everywhere you go. they're no good You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.

I find that in life, even the most unsympathetic person has a clear delineation of his motives, however complex and unappealing, but to him, there is a moral clarity to his actions. I think part of my job as a storyteller is to recognize the congruity or incongruity of his motives and behavior and somehow still be fair to the character and to the reader.

It is possible that characters need to die for the author to make her moral point, for the author himself to regenerate by letting go of an ideal identity, or for the world to recognize the necessity of certain ideas and ideals to die.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

There was no whimsical 'sip of wine at Thanksgiving' for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the country.

even though deep down I know that if there is an afterlife, she's a pretty much open-and-shut case for hell.

No, Mineko, beauty is universal. There is an absolute principle in this world that underlies the appearance and disappearance of all phenomena. That is what we call karma. It is constant and immutable, and gives rise to universal values like beauty and morality.

Let us so absorb integrity—experiencing both its triumphs and defeats—that we do the right thing intuitively.

There is injustice in this world, yes. But there is no need to add to it.

Kart? mokydamas, kaip tapyti lotos? mano tapybos mokytojas ponas Vu aiškino: Ši graži g?l? auga iš nešvarum?. Mes sakome: "išaug?s iš purvo, bet nesusitep?s", taip ir kai kurie žmon?s gyvena blogio apsuptyje, bet išlieka dori.

So much easier to say, 'The devil made him do it,' than to face up to something much more horrifying: somebody, a person just like you, decided to do evil. And enjoys it.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Most people believe the apple merely represented Knowledge. But we know better. It was the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Nothing less than the curse of consciousness. Of moral responsibility. Of always, ever after, having to choose between what is right and what is wrong.

Don't feel ashamed, girl," she said, answering my thoughts. "The truth is a noble grail to seek. But if you're after it, you must imagine, first, what it will mean to get it. The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn't offer anything besides itself." She nodded resolutely. "I'm proud I told Jackson the truth. I'm glad he died knowing who he was.

The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn't offer anything besides itself.

The truth is a noble grail to seek. But if you're after it, you must imagine, first, what it will mean to get it. The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn't offer anything besides itself.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

Cumplit era c?, dup? cum mergeau vorbele, vechiul refugiu al celor asediaÈ›i de r?u: divinitatea, binele È™i viaÈ›a moral?, se aliase pentru întâia oar? cu tenebrele, pentru a-nf??ura lumea în inextricabila pânz? de p?ianjen a nici binelui, nici r?ului, nici extazului, nici groazei, nici a tuturor laolalt?, nici a vidurilor, ci a Altceva, ceva inuman, nediavolesc È™i nedivin, de neperceput cu mintea È™i de neatins cu degetele.