Quotes About Morality

In fondo, per certa gente, la vera colpa di un uomo e di una donna consiste nell'amarsi in un letto

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

Im neutral on lying, seeing as how theres times when the truth just hurts people.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

There are no villains who doesn't have his reasons.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. WILLIAM HAZLITT

Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." Rochefoucauld's maxim