Quotes About Morality

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

understood that when treachery is philosophically justified, true peace is impossible.

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.

Uno empieza siendo idealista, moralmente fuerte, si se quiere, pero entonces la ropa de tu fuerza moral se va desgastando poco a poco hasta que ya no puedes más y haces cosas que nunca pensaste que harías, o no haces cosas que siempre pensaste que harías.

Dope is supposed to be bad, but in a bad world it's good

The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They're done by compromised people doing the best they can.

Their only weapon is shame, if the powerful can even feel it.

In un epoca di relativismo morale, dare la tua parola non significa tanto, immagino. Ma mio padre mi aveva insegnato che è l'unica cosa che hai che nessuno potrà mai portarti via. L'unica cosa che puoi dare e allo stesso tempo mantenere.

prefer married women and expensive whores. You have a nice meal, a few laughs, a good fuck, and then you each go back to your own lives. It's better that way." So

There has always been philosophical speculation on the question, What if there were no God? Keller thinks as he walks through the slush. But no one has really asked, much less answered, the question, What if there were no Satan?

Cops fall into two categories—grass eaters and meat eaters. The grass eaters are the small-timers—they take a cut from the car-towing companies, they get a free coffee, a sandwich. They take what comes, they're not aggressive. The meat eaters are the predators, they go after what they want—the drug rips, the mob payoffs, the cash.

It's a bitter lesson—you think you can rent your soul, but it's always a sale, and all sales are final.

Perhaps we're not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils.

Shakespeare: "The evil that men do lives after them.

The nuns used to say that the devil comes disguised as an angel. That the worst things you'll do, you'll do for the best reasons. The most hateful things you'll do, you'll do for the ones you love most.

He feels ashamed, wretched, coming to the realization that when push comes to shove, when the terrible reality is at hand, he really would have them do it to someone else rather than himself

You start by being idealistic, morally strong if you will, but then the rock of your moral strength is eroded, bit by bit, until you're, well, exhausted, and you do things that you never thought you would. Or you do things that you always feared you would.

You're a hypocrite, he tells himself, using dirty dope money to get yourself clean, using other people's suffering to relieve your own, committing a mortal sin to save your soul.

Por esas razones —dice Bernie—, me opongo al pacto que has hecho con Vecchio y te insto encarecidamente a que reflexiones. Danny Ryan, tú eres un hombre sensato. —Solo será esta vez —dice Danny. —El alma no se alquila. Solo se vende.

Over my forty-year career as a defense attorney, I regularly came into contact with people who lied, cheated, and tried to bend the system so that they would come out on top. Most of them worked for the government. —OSCAR GOODMAN, BEING OSCAR

Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that's about the extent of their relationship.

Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.

he'd rather shoot you and rob the body than be reduced to