Quotes About Morality

The thief who has no opportunity to steal thinks he is an honest man.

There are more whores in hiding than there are public ones.

There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.

There is nothing so evil as the mind of a virtuous woman.

Thief who steals thief has one hundred years of pardon.

Unless Hell is full, no lawyer will ever be saved.

Virtue in the middle, said the Devil, when seated between two lawyers.

Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.

We hang little thieves, and take off our hats to great ones.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

The better the gambler, the worse the man.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

What is left when honor is lost

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Perpetrators of human rights violations redefine morality and start believing that they can commit systematic murder and other atrocities "for the greater good." The distance between evil and sickness is not that great. The evil component of crimes against humanity is the moral failing. The sickness aspect is the defect in perspective, the distortion in mental processing that both precedes the evil and is intensified by it.

That one is not confronted with the choices de Kock could have to could not have made, that one was not a member of the privileged class in apartheid South Africa are matters of sheer grace.

That one is not confronted with the choices de Kock could have or could not have made, that one was not a member of the privileged class in apartheid South Africa are matters of sheer grace.

Take heed that if you deceive, lie, intrigue, cheat, you thereby demean yourself. belittle yourself, confess your own weakness beforehand, play the part of the slave of the harem who feels himself the inferior of his master. Do this if it so pleases you, but know that humanity will regard you as petty, contemptible and feeble, and treat you as such. Having no evidence of your strength, it will act towards you as one worthy of pity — and pity only.

The man who does not feel the slightest remorse when poisoning his customers with noxious drugs covered with pompous labels, thinks he is in honour bound to keep his engagements. But if this relative morality has developed under present conditions, when enrichment is the only incentive and the only aim, can we doubt its rapid progress when appropriation of the fruits of others' labour will no longer be the basis of society?

We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice of a double-faced morality. And since the brain is ill at ease among lies, we cheat ourselves with sophistry. Hypocrisy and sophistry become the second nature of the civilized man.