Quotes About Morality

We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.

A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.

Il ouvre un large bec, laisse tomber sa proie. Le Renard s'en saisit, et dit : "Mon bon Monsieur, Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute : Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.

We cannot prove that privileged owe something to the rest, any more than we can prove that theft is wrong.

Some just wanted to be on the side of the good cookies.

This guy is a real pain. I want to remind him that we're the good guys. We're not up at 4 a.m. because we like the way it feels.

Our domestic life and the law of our Homes do not resemble your Homes. We love each other without love. Our homes do not have the sacramental character. Fags are the great immoralists.

Ä°yilikte bir ÅŸey yok. Güzel ve zengin olunca elbette iyi olur insan. Mesele adil olmakta. Ama bu adaletsizlikte hizmetçi ol da iyi ol bakal?m!

It would seem logical to pray to the devil, but no thief would dare do so seriously. To come to terms with him would be to commit oneself too deeply. He is too opposed to God, who, we know, is the final victor. A murderer himself would not dare pray to the devil.

My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman.

c'était pas un péché… si c'était pas un péché, je me pensais, de clôturer une chrétienne quasiment sous terre quand il faisait si beau dehors.

L'histoire a une morale ; proférée par Amédée, elle est animale. « Voilà : la vie était devant eux. Ah, j'étais sans souci de ce côté. La vie était devant eux parce qu'ils s'aimaient et surtout parce qu'ils s'aimaient comme des gens libres. Vous

What happened in Nyamata, in the churches, in the marshes and on the hills, were the abnormal actions of perfectly normal people. Here's why I say that. The principal and the inspector of schools in my district joined in the killings with nail-studded clubs. Two teachers, colleagues with whom I used to share beers and student evaluations, pitched in to help, so to speak. A priest, the mayor, the assistant chief of police, a doctor - they all killed with their own hands.

It was right for his speech to be a failure, since what he had been defending was a lie.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.

He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.