Quotes About Morality

Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?

Cómo puede una reina ser a la vez una bruja buena y una bruja mala? ¿Cómo puede un príncipe ser a la vez un asesino y un salvador? ¿Cómo puede un boticario tener un carácter del demonio pero ser recto en sus principios? ¿Cómo puede un párroco tener malos pensamientos y un buen corazón? ¿Cómo es posible que los hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?

Then he did it a bit more. "I don't understand. Who's the good guy here?" There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.

Los humanos son animales complicados [...]. ¿Cómo puede una reina ser a la vez una bruja buena y una bruja mala? ¿Cómo puede un príncipe ser a la vez un asesino y un salvador? ¿Cómo puede un boticario tener un carácter del demonio pero ser recto en sus principios? ¿Cómo puede un párroco tener malos pensamientos y buen corazón? ¿Cómo es posible que hombres invisibles estén más solos cuando consiguen que todo el mundo los vea?

Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.

Son," his father said, leaning forward. "Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect. His

No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo está en algún punto intermedio.

Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. How can a queen be both a good witch and a bad witch? How can a prince be a murderer and a saviour? How can an apothecary be evil-tempered but right-thinking? How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?

Non sempre c'è un buono. Come non c'è sempre un cattivo. La maggior parte delle persone è una via di mezzo fra le due cose.

Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalized

it was when Arthur Sackler said it. Doctors are human, and the notion that donning a white coat might somehow shield them from temptation is a fantasy.

This had become a mantra for Isaac. If you lose a fortune, you can always earn another, he pointed out. But if you lose your good name, you can never get it back.

I am one of the most famous reformed junkies on the planet," she told Joss's nemesis, Page Six. "What is it about me that says to Joss Sackler, 'I will sell out to you?

If you lose a fortune, you can always earn another, he pointed out. But if you lose your good name, you can never get it back.

there was an underlying theme in the letters that insinuated, without ever saying so explicitly, that wealthy white executives—men with families and impressive educational pedigrees, men who give to charity and play an important role in their local communities—were temperamentally incapable of committing the kinds of crimes that should land a person in prison. They weren't the types of people who belonged in prison, one letter after another suggested.

against the Sacklers were twisting the facts to scapegoat her clients, she argued. What was their crime? All they had done was sell a drug that was perfectly legal—a product

How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie, or a fruit pie?

I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

Wrong things never lead to success. If a man acts wrongly and succeeds, that is not the way. Without the Lethani there is no true success.

He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact the he accused them of things I'm sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character.