Quotes About Morality

I flash a fake smile of my own, refraining from telling her what I'm really thinking: that it's an unwise karmic move to go around feeling superior to other mothers. Because before she knows it, her little angel could become a tattooed teenager hiding joints in her designer handbag and doling out blow jobs in the backseat of her BMW.

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

Somewhere deep down, I know I'm in the wrong. I know I'm rationalizing my actions, and worry I might even be manufacturing problems with Andy to get this result. I also know that I'm only inviting more trouble into my life. But for now, I feel good. Really good. Better than I've felt in a long, long time.

To be clear, I have no problem with religion or people who are religious, even those who are outspoken about their faith. What I can't stand are the judgmental hypocrites- people who talk a big Christian game yet don't even make a cursory attempt to follow the Golden Rule, let alone some of those pesky commandments.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Lives are beyond price, and to treat them as if they have some kind of barter value is obscene.

The origin of my body and my mind didn't matter. I, the part of me that learned, that called on my memories, that knew I'd pulled a plant like this before, that had moved this hand to do it, was fifteen years old and innocent of evil or good. Neutral. From here forward, I was blank tape; what would be recorded there, and when, and why, was up to me.

Swiping's bad but if I was a swiper I'd swipe good stuff like cars and chocolates.

Bad people very often do one good thing.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

No other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality

All unnatural unions which are not hallowed by love are prostitution.

El anarquismo [...] defiende la acción directa, el rechazo y la resistencia frente a las leyes y las restricciones económicas, sociales y morales. Aunque el rechazo y la resistencia sean ilegales. En ello descansa la salvación del ser humano. Todo lo ilegal necesita de la integridad, de la independencia y el coraje.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

Una mujer a la que le gustan los frutos prohibidos y odia a los vigilantes de los parques públicos no puede ser del todo mala.

De modo que fue así como, en las primeras mañanas que iluminó el Sol, el árbol del bien y del mal verdeció y se desafiaron las prohibiciones?

Never take the easy way out if it means being dishonest or untruthful

We all have good and bad in us, and we have to strive all the time to make the good cancel out the bad. We can never be perfect – we all of us do mean or wrong things at times – but we can at least make amends by trying to cancel out the wrong by doing something worthy later on.

I do not count as our successes those who have won scholarships and passed exams, though these are good things to do. I count as our successes those who learn to be good-hearted and kind, sensible and trustable, good, sound women the world can lean on. Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

be as good as gold.

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.