Quotes About Morality

To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.

De muchas cosas me pueden culpar mis enemigos. Pero de dos, jamás: de ser ladrón o maricón"[40

Each time you perform a positive action, it is like depositing money into your karmic bank account. Each time you do something hurtful or negative, it is like writing a check from that bank account. The goal is to build up as much karmic currency as possible in order to ensure your current and future lifetimes will be filled with positive, happy energy.

But satire, ever moral, ever new,Delights the reader and instructs him, too.She, if good sense refine her sterling page,Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never reenter it once we are on the outside.

In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

C'est une belle allégorie, dans la Bible, que cet arbre de la science du bien et du mal qui produit la mort. Cet emblème ne veut-il pas dire que lorsqu'on a pénétré le fond des choses, la pert des illusions amène la mort de l'âme, c'est-à-dire un désintéressement complet sur tout ce qui touches les autres hommes?

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking

La gloire ne peut apporter de joie à qui l'a volée: elle ne fait palpiter que les cœurs dignes d'elle.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?

We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.

I have to adhere to the truth," I said.

If there were any justice," said Shale, "one ought to be allowed to use ardent militarists for experiments in peacetime, if one uses pacifists in war. But I suppose they wouldn't volunteer.

The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain.

Central to Mill's approach throughout On Liberty is his 'Harm Principle', the idea that individual adults should be free to do whatever they wish up to the point where they harm another person in the process. Mill's principle is apparently straightforward: the only justification for interference with someone's freedom to live their life as they choose is if they risk harming other people.

Mill was very clear on this point: offence should not be confused with harm.

Instead of looking to increase our pleasure in life, they think, we should try to become better people and do the right thing. That is what makes a life go well.

Allowables I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small spider Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened.