Quotes About Morality

Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences.

I wouldn't use physical violence even if I could, because one of my romantic ideas is that physical violence is beneath the dignity of a man, and that whatever you get by physical aggression costs more than it is worth.

That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

Nothing is nonsense that is concerned with the vagaries of human conduct.

True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked.

Nothing is quite so uncomfortable as a loose conscience.

He'll try again. With money to pay lawyers you can do a lot of dodging. That's one of the disadvantages of being poor, you don't dare kill anybody.

At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big question was, could a man be called great on account of the way he used words, even though he was a toady, a trimmer, a forger, and an intellectual fop.

If we are to believe in gods at all, we must believe them to be wiser and better than men.

Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise." Book of Arda Viraf (circa 6th century) ZOROASTRIAN RELIGIOUS TEXT

If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Just because everyone's doing it doesn't make it right. Wrong's wrong, even in a ruddy war.

Hay gente tan corrupta que no se da cuenta de su propia corrupción

You told me that it would be better to find family among people who were good than to try and find good among my family.

I had three ribs stoved in once in Outremer, so I knew what was going on. I recognised the sound, and the particular sort of pain, and the not quite being able to breathe. Mostly I remember thinking: it won't hurt, because any moment now I'll be dead. Bizarrely reassuring, as if I was cheating, getting away with it. Cheating twice; once by staying alive, once by dying. This man is morally bankrupt.

Bonus vir nm est nisi qu bonus est omnibus. (Publilius Sent.)

Doing what is right, isn't always easy, nor was it meant to be. The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Scott calls Bois-Guilbert 'an unprincipled voluptuary,' which is hard to improve on.

To live faithfully in the time between the times is to walk a tightrope of moral discernment, claiming neither too much nor too little for God's transforming power within the community of faith.

When human beings engage in homosexual activity, they enact an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual reality: the rejection of the Creator's design.

Homosexual acts are not, however, specially reprehensible sins; they are no worse than any of the other manifestations of human unrighteousness listed in the passage (w. 29–31)—no worse in principle than covetousness or gossip or disrespect for parents.

Homosexual activity will not incur God's punishment: it is its own punishment, an

As Zabelka remarked, the just war theory is "something that Christ never taught or even hinted at."6