Quotes About Morality

Rien n'est plus vilain qu'une petite fille qui regarde bander son frère et ne fait rien pour le soulager.

An empty stomach knows no morality.

To-day, the man who pays taxes to the amount of two hundred francs is virtuous; the talented man is the honest pickpocket: such truths as these are accounted trivial.

All the most reasonable teachings of human wisdom concerning justice are summed up in that famous adage: Do unto others that which you would that others should do unto you; Do not unto others that which you would not that others should do unto you. But this rule of moral practice is unscientific: what have I a right to wish that others should do or not do to me? It is of no use to tell me that my duty is equal to my right, unless I am told at the same time what my right is.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.

PRESCRIPTION A bit of virtue will never hurt you.

Mankind Men, said the Devil, are good to their brothers: they don't want to mend their own ways, but each other's.

Hvis man regner med belønning for sin godhed, er det ikke godhed, men beregning.

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

Funny the distinctions that grown-ups make about lying. If a kid does it, then it's automatically bad, bad, bad. If a grown-up they don't like does it and gets found out, the same rules apply, onlymore so. If they do it themselves, however, it is perfectly understandable and is one of those famous "white lies" you hear so much about.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.