Quotes About Morality

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

You know something, Fowl? You did a good thing here. For its own sake. Not one penny of profit." Artemis grimaced. "I know! I'm appalled!

Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?

And was his conscience not needling him, leeching some of the sweetness from his victory?

steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich.

Killing the devil cannot be a sin.

I often think that an individual's character can be judged by what he considers worthy of celebration.

The man was an animal. Base and foul. In a just world he would be the prisoner and Conor a free man.

Saints are not allowed to lie, not even to demons.

Mooi schot.'... Artemis stak haar de munt toe. 'Nee,' zei Holly. 'Hou hem maar. Om je te helpen herinneren... dat er diep onder die lagen onbetrouwbaarheid toch nog een vonkje fatsoen is.

He could be like a modern-day Robin Hood: steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich. One step at a time.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.

Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don't act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly?

What saith Antisthenes? Hast thou never heard?— It is a kingly thing, O Cyrus, to do well and to be evil spoken of.

What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.

It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards. And often it is best for us not to pay the price, for the price might be our integrity.