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Quotes About Morality

Love is supposed to ennoble the soul, not degrade it.
~ Lauren Willig
Memiliki rasa hormat pada diri sendiri akan membimbing moral kita, Memiliki rasa hormat terhadap orang lain akan menjaga sikap sopan santun kita.
~ Laurence Sterne
Y, en vuestro propio caso, recordad bien y meditad sobre esta sencilla distinción (no hacerla como es debido ha sido la perdición de miles):—que vuestra conciencia no es ley.—
~ Laurence Sterne
No sé, dijo mi padre respondiendo con cierta morosidad a fin de que su comentario sonara completamente desapasionado,—no sé, dijo, qué otra cosa nos queda para cedérsela en lugar del derecho a decidir quién habrá de traer nuestros hijos al mundo,——a excepción del derecho a decidir—quién habrá de engendrarlos.—
~ Laurence Sterne
I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Are you a man-whore? I asked as the loudest group of them teetered away on their high heels. (High heels? Really? At seven thirty in the morning? Shouldn't you actually have breasts before you start wearing heels?)
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
How could men who liked cats be bad?
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Momma said we had to fight the evil inside us by overcoming it with goodness. She said it was a hard thing to do, but it made us worthy.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Are you kidding I was raised Catholic, my mom just came back from a Saint Francis Pilgrimage in Italy and bought a huge statue to prove it, big as you. Big as you. Catholics aren't like that, they can be a little slutty at times, sure and there's the pedophilia, but they aren't allowed to be strippers! It's not allowed!
~ Laurie Notaro
Religion has proved to be the refuge of so many scoundrels, one begins by doubting, and waits to be proven wrong. [The Language of Bees, chapter 30]
~ Laurie R. King
Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?
~ Lawrence Block
Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.
~ Lawrence Block
A British Cabinet Minister finds that To lie in the nude Is not at all rude But to lie in the House is obscene and a government is rocked
~ Lawrence Block
Women (don't) follow logic's rules when they (commit) adultery.
~ Lawrence Block
Set your mind at rest," he said. "I don't steal from clients, I just overcharge them. It's a lot more lucrative in the long run and you spend less time in prison.
~ Lawrence Block
I have done so many things in my life, she said to the mirror. Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?
~ Lawrence Durrell
And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.
~ Lawrence Durrell
A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.
~ Lawrence Durrell
There are two positions available to us – either crime which renders us happy, or the noose, which prevents us from being unhappy.
~ Lawrence Durrell
A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism. Nothing else.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
~ Albert Einstein
There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.
~ Alice von Hildebrand
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.