Quotes About Morality

L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.

Veo aquí materia suficiente para formar muchos Tomás de Aquino y muchos Arrios, si las inteligencias no hubieran perdido su antiguo ardor lo mismo para el bien que para el mal.

I freely acknowledge that it is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

La razón guía y alumbra, pero si la divinizáis, acaso ciegue y sea instigadora de crímenes…

Debemos amar la virtud, pero es bueno saber que se trata de un sencillo recurso imaginado por los hombres para vivir unidos cómodamente

Não concebo por que misturam, nesse caso, considerações políticas e paixões partidárias. Ele é superior a tudo isso, pois que é uma questão moral.

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

In 1920, shortly before he died, he was quoted in the New York Times saying, "My life was never destined to be quite happy. . . . Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness. It is as certain a death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.

Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God.

His chronic physical ill health was paralleled by his constantly surprising moral strength. He would borrow money aloud but lend it with a whisper. In his presence everything became simple, clear, and aboveboard.

Se Deus não existisse, tudo seria permitido'', diz um personagem de Dostoiévski. Não é verdade, porque, crente ou não, tu não se permite tudo: tudo, inclusive o pior, não seria digno de ti! (...) Não é porque Deus existe que devo agir bem; é porque devo agir bem que posso necessitar - não para ser virtuoso, mas para escapar do desespero - de crer em Deus.

Não é porque Deus existe que devo agir bem; é porque devo agir bem que posso necessitar - não para ser virtuoso, mas para escapar do desespero - de crer em Deus.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by.

It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this respect: either they are working toward the elaboration of a revolutionary morality, or they echo the morality of their age, against which they are protesting.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

Do you blame the sword for killing? It is the hand and brain behind it which holds the responsibility!

lumea este totuna cu r?ul, un r?u mereu mai viclean dec?t poate b?nui omul, iar binele este una din vicleniile lui.

one cannot be held forever to a less-than-honorable act, after a life of great integrity, just because of one moment of weakness.

In grammar school he'd had an old priest as his religion teacher. "Truth is light," the priest had said one day. Montalbano, never very studious, had been a mischievous pupil, always sitting in the last row. "So that must mean that if everyone in the family tells the truth, they save on the electric bill.

Join us in our pursuit for what is right in God's eyes.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex.