Quotes About Morality

Quando uma coisa é má, não há elogio que a torne boa.

La caridad es la virtud fundamental que debe sostener todo el edificio de las virtudes terrestres; sin ellas, las otras no existen. Sin la caridad no hay esperanza en una vida mejor, no hay interés moral que nos guíe; sin caridad no hay fe, porque la fe sólo es un rayo puro que hace brillar a un alma caritativa.

Although I condemn any violence, if two people are fighting, I'm probably gonna be on one side or the other, even though I'm against violence.

Life doesn't make sense. It's against the law for somebody to steal your bike but apparently it doesn't matter if somebody tries to steal your best friend. Well you can always get a new bike. But how do you replace a best friend

I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him.

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to legal questions. Moreover, the law is better at telling us what not to do than at providing ends and goals worthy of our humanity.

Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.

As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the best means to that good.

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.

The right thing to do is often not the most prudent thing to do,

No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.

But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.

Honor is overrated.

Katarina Bishop was a criminal. But she'd never held a gun. She'd never thrown a punch. Until that moment she didn't really know how it felt to hurt someone, and as soon as she saw the look on Hale's face, she wanted to take the words back. And she wished she could make them hurt more. Both.

Not knowing what the W's stood for had become a constant reminder to Kat that, in life, there are things that can be given but never stolen

bad things for good reasons

Chelovek takma ad?ndan daha eski bir kural vard?r, en eski yalanc?n?n bile inkâr edemeyeceÄŸi bir gerçek: dürüst birini doland?ramazs?n. EÄŸer doland?r?rsan… Buna piÅŸman olursun. (syf. 157)

Alex never killed hares.

Are Shareem slaves?" she asked. Slavery had been outlawed for millennia on Ariel, but she knew that some planetary systems still practiced it. "No," Talan said quickly. "Well," Rio drawled. "We can be if you want.

I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.

La cuestión no era la bondad o la maldad de las personas, sino la naturaleza de sus ideas.

The Nazis thus offered a modern salvation worldview that defined evil lucidly and consistently: significantly, it did this by blending science, morality, and identity, that is, by mixing modern race theories, moral religious sentiments associated with a tradition of Christianity, and key elements of Heimat and German national identity.