Quotes About Morality

Valuing physical sensations above moral considerations is evidence of either mental deficiency or demonic evil.

Imagine saying that the law was the antonym of crime! But perhaps everybody in "society" can go on living in self-satisfaction, thanks to just such simple concepts. They think that crime hatches where there are no policemen.

Crime and punishment. Dostoievski. These words grazed over a corner of my mind, startling me. Just supposing Dostoievski ranged 'crime' and 'punishment' side by side not as synonyms but as antonyms. Crime and punishment—absolutely incompatible ideas, irreconcilable as oil and water.

I find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can live, purely, happily, serenely while engaging in deceit. Human beings never did teach me that abstruse secret.

Podría ser la confianza pura una fuente de delito?

I find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can live, purely, happily, serenely while engaged in deceit. Human beings never did teach me that abstruse secret.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. This is what we both certainly are. The revolution must be taking place somewhere, but the old morality persists unchanged in the world around us and lies athwart our way. However much the waves on the surface of the sea may rage, the water at the bottom, far from experiencing a revolution, lies motionless, awake but feigning sleep.

But there are times when one man's sense of justice may tear apart the peaceful domestic lives of other people.

Humans have a true desire to do good things. They live with the desire that other people will feel thankful to them

The reason I can point out a person's evil nature is because I have that same evil nature within me

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

He's all right. Naoji's all right. Scoundrels like Naoji simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people.

We will live in perpetual struggle with the old morality, like the sun.

Who are jails made for? Only poor people are put in jails! They are probably just the weak and honest people who don't know how to trick others. Just because they aren't craft or evil enough to get by through tricking other people, they get driven into a corner and end up doing something stupid, like stealing two or three yen. And for that they have to go to jail for five or ten years!

La moral que nos inculcan en el instituto es muy distinta a la que rige en el mundo real.

The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Power without morality leads to abuse, and freedom without morality leads to depravity.

Your dream is always valid until you lose moral to chase it.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.