Quotes About Morality

We try to do what's right, or rather, what others say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

History's like that. There are wars, and unfortunately, in the end, who wins and who loses is more important than who's right or wrong.

Nothing about them looked evil at all, unless they were about to force that ice cream on some diabetic children.

Besides, I already knew you didn't have any moral qualms about breaking and entering.

No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.

El desarrollo del carácter siempre involucra una elección, y la tentación proporciona esa oportunidad.

James said, "Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning.

your character is the sum total of your habits. You can't claim to be kind unless you are habitually kind — you show kindness without even thinking about it. You can't claim to have integrity unless it is your habit to always be honest.

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....

Boldt glanced up to check the sharpshooter: The man had changed positions, and now hid behind the chimney where it would be easier to steady a rifle barrel. It occurred to Boldt that in the next few minutes they might kill a man—might get several more killed if they were not careful. For what? To appease the legal process?

Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

April 23, 1813: "Political problems do not primarily concern truth or falsehood. They relate to good or evil. What in the result is likely to prove evil, is politically false; that which is productive or good, politically is true.

All wars are grotesque blasphemies against God's greatest gift: Life. Until

Two wrongs don't make a right.

No one who is good can ever be ugly.

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake.

And when I protested a bit more, I remember he said, 'My dear Lady Ponsonby, there's nothing immoral about this. Art is only immoral when practiced by amateurs. It's the same with medicine. You wouldn't refuse to undress before your doctor, would you?

No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled

Your daughter's a cheat and a liar," the father said

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake. Money is the thing they fight over most.

Matilde non rispose. Rimase in silenzio, ribollendo di rabbia. Sapeva che odiare i propri genitori non era una bella cosa, ma non riusciva ad impedirselo. I libri le avevano mostrato la vita sotto una luce che loro ignoravano. Se soltanto avessero letto un romanzo di Dickens, o di Kipling, avrebbero scoperto che imbrogliare la gente e guardare la televisione non è tutto.

Human beans is killing each other much quicker than the giants is doing it.' 'But they don't eat each other,' Sophie said. 'Giants isn't eating each other either,' the BFG said. 'Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they is not killing each other.

If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God's chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.