Quotes About Morality

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

I suggest that we should deal with sex, not from the standpoint of its wickedness, nor of its commonplaceness, but of its sacredness.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

We wake from our doings in a deep sweat for that they happened in a house without an address, in a street in no town, citizened with people with no names with which to deny them. Their very lack of identity makes them ourselves. For by a street number, by a house, by a name, we cease to accuse ourselves. Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

Ravnodušnost je, a ne mržnja, kraj svake ljubavi. Mržnja može da se ugasi i smeni obnovljenom ljubavlju, ?ak i ja?om no pre mržnje; ravnodušnost ni?im ne može da se izmeni. Ona je psihološka osnova svakog nemorala me?u ljudima i svake njihove surovosti.

Ako dobra nema u ljudima, ne može ga biti ni u društvu.

Boriti se može protiv careva, tirana, papa, lopova i medveda, pitona i krokodila. Si?ušnu vašku zaludno je ubijati. I smešno je i bezumno ubijati vaši.

Ni?emu život ne sme da bude cena. Apsolutno ni?emu.

I naružila se zemlja od pogašenih ognjišta. Dve zore nikad na istom bivaku. Kad menjaš ognjište, i narav ti se menja. Kad tebi otimaju, i ti otimaš. Veruj mi, u zlu su svi ljudi zli.

Jednom sam, u o?ajanju, morao da pitam mamu: "Zašto ljudi ne vole one koji im nikakvo zlo ne ?ine?" - "Zato sine, što ti dobri ne li?e na njih ostale", odgovorila mi mama, bez premišljanja. "Pa, ipak, mama, ne?e biti da su svi ljudi zli.", rekao sam prili?no ube?eno. Mama je ?utala i ja sam to ?utanje zapamtio. Oca nisam o tome pitao jer sam se plašio njegovog odgovora.

Tako i po tome, u našoj Bolnici vladaju zakoni koji važe i van nje: vladaoci bez vrlina najomiljeniji su vladaoci. Svetina voli one koji vole ono što ona voli, koji ?ine sve što bi oni, dripci, ?inili kad bi bili na vlasti. Rulja mrzi pravdoljupce i istinoljupce, ljude koji poštuju zakone i rade pošteno.

If it's doubtful, it's dirty.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Nothing out there tells us how we must live: we and we alone can now with confidence knowingly trust our own hearts, and admit that we do and must invent our own ethics.

33 El pobre es honrado por sus buenas costumbres y santo temor de Dios; y el rico es respetado por las riquezas que tiene. 34 Mas aquel que en medio de la pobreza es honrado, ¿cuánto más lo sería si llegase a ser rico? Pero el que funda su honor en sus riquezas, tiene que temer mucho la pobreza. 11

Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.