Quotes About Morality

I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?

Mrs Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Decency's a dull dog," retorted Aunt Becky. "I parted company with it long ago.

Fark?nda olmadan kötülük yapmak çok kolayd?r, öyle deÄŸil mi?

Bana öyle geliyor ki bu dünyada öyle ya da böyle iyi olmaktan kurtulam?yorsun. Sadece iyi olmak zorundas?n.

But play the game of life according to the rules.  You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end.

É fácil demais ser mau sem se dar conta disso, não é?

Where is my conscience, Anne? I want to know. Is it in my stomach?

Oh, of course he's good, agreed Anne. But he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be good I'd dance and sing all day because I was glad of it.

is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

A careful regulation of the economic impulses of society was considered as essential to man's spiritual welfare as it was to his material well-being. There was a righteous price in commerce, based on considerations of morality, as well as an economic price, reflecting the laws of supply and demand.

Whether the Vatican by 1499 had become the sewer of the world, as it was later claimed, is debatable, but certainly religion and morality were parting company, the former degenerating into a business and the latter all but disappearing from the Church.

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

To argue a moral position convincingly these days requires that one speak to (and not depart from) people's love of material well-being, their fascination with efficiency, or their fear of death.

Extremism in defense of virtue is no vice.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

What we done wrong the first time was doing it honest. I'm through with honest. It's every man for himself in this country, and that's the way I like it. There ain't much law and mostly it can be outrun.

A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We

One must travel all the way to the center. To know and hate evil is one path to knowing good.

Allen, it puzzles me that a man can shoot thirty-two full-grown men and women before the sheriff's men gun him down. You're more his time, maybe you can tell me. Why didn't someone just shoot the son of a bitch?

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. - Mark Twain

Jag ställer egentligen bara ett moraliskt krav på mänskligheten, men ett ganska strängt: att den skall älska mig.

Should have shames a good slave. It shames a good man, period.