Quotes About Morality

Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before.

Wise is he who disdains no character, but, fixing a searching eye on him, explores him down to the first causes… Blessed is the man who has chosen the most noble passion from among them all.

with thousands it's hard to be quite sinless, but to make millions is easy. A millionaire has no need to resort to crooked ways. Just go on and take the straight road, take all that lies before you! No one else will pick it up.

Exist? taine ale sufletului: oricât de mult s-ar îndep?rta de drumul cel drept un r?t?citor, orcât s-ar înr?i în sufletul s?u un criminal iremediabil, oricât ar persista în via?a sa dezm??at?, dac? îl dojene?ti ?i-i ar??i calit??ile, pe care chiar el le-a f?cut de ru?ine, totul se cutremur? f?r? voie în el ?i omul se simte zguduit.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

By branding the rule of President al-Asad as illegitimate, Western countries may have been morally just, but they thereby prematurely blocked any opportunity they might have had to play a constructive role in finding a political solution to the crisis. The question was what should have priority: being morally correct or helping to find a solution?

What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

If a company's reputation-building efforts appear to be somehow separate from its business model, then you suspect they are primarily a corrective to its naturally amoral or immoral inclinations—a medicine to relieve the symptoms but not a cure for the basic disease.

Act only on the maxim which you can will as a law for all rational beings," and "Act so as to treat rational beings always as ends in themselves and never as means only." Kant

A worthy man is not always a holy man.

If pain is too bad to be executed by everybody, and seen by everybody, is it not because it is too bad?

Ducking ponds where dogs chased ducks were popular amusements at parks, and sometimes, to increase the fun, an owl would be tied to the duck's back, which caused it to dive in terror until one or both of the birds died.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret." —HERCULE POIROT

Perhaps a woman has a different kind of measuring stick. For when it might be acceptable, or even necessary, to commit a murder.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.