Quotes About Morality

The kind of man who would take a woman—he's no man at all.

His philosophy insists that ethics comes first, that "ethics precedes ontology": the first thing we know is our own being, and the way that we know everything else is through the other person.

One must devote oneself to figuring out that one must live for the good, for its own sake. It was a secular morality. Contemporaries did not know what to call a thing like that—he questioned their every faith, their every way of life—so they called it atheism.

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for." Not that I'm one to talk.

You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

I'm not a shitty person, but I'm about to do a shitty thing. and you will hate me, and some other people will hate me, but I'm going to do it anyway to protect you and also myself.

But the means—he was less certain that the means were above reproach. But what can a man do, or a woman either, but use what comes to hand?

In such dreadful times as these no one can do more than choose his own road according to his conscience, and bear the consequences of his choice, whatever they may be.

You know but don't want to let on, Raylan said, seeing Nicky's hands right there at his waist, the boy still in the game, waiting to see if you have a move. Well, I'll tell you something. Shooting at a person is not the same as shooting out on a firing range. Even if you're a dead shot, it don't mean you can look a man in the eye and be able to pull the trigger. I know this for a fact, partner, cause I taught the use of firearms at the training academy.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life.

Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

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You'd never get Burle to behave decently. When a man sank as low as that, the only thing to do was to throw a spadeful of mud over him and get rid of him like the rotting carcass of some poisonous beast. And even if you shoved his nose in his own shit, he'd only start again the next day and end up stealing a few sous to buy sticks of barley sugar for lice-ridden little beggar-girls.

What scum respectable people are!

Understand this! A year ago General Billot and Generals de Boisdeffre and Gonse knew that Dreyfus was innocent, and they have kept this frightful thing to themselves. And these men sleep and have wives and children whom they love!

When a man was honest in his dealings, you could forgive him the rest.

Was für Schurken, diese ehrbaren Leute!

The courtesans, as Vandeuvres used to say, avenged public morality by emptying his moneybags.

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed.