Quotes About Morality

A részeg ember aljasabb, mint akármelyik gonosztevÅ'. A tolvaj, ha éppen nem lop, olyan ember, mint mindenki más. A zsaroló legalább otthon nem folytatja mesterségét. A gyilkos megmossa kezét, amikor hazatér. De milyen a részeg ember? Büdös, és berókáz a saját ágyába, és a szeszben eláznak a legfontosabb szervei.

How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.

That is the way a whore talks. A whore is also a woman, but I am not a whore. You'll be one. Not through you.

A man must learn to recognize values.

E nisto consiste a moral: coisas que fazemos e das quais depois sentimos repulsa.

There are no men like them when they are good, but when they get bad, there's no world which is worse.

Njega sam ubio u samoobrani - opet ?e starac naglas. - I pošteno sam ga ubio. Osim toga, pomisli, svi se me?u sobom ubijaju, na ovaj ili onaj na?in. Ribarenje me ubija koliko me i održava na životu.

on je volio razmišljati o svemu što proživljava a kako nije imao što ?itati niti je imalo radio, mnogo je razmišljao i nastavio je razmišljati i o grijehu. Nisi ti ubio ribu samo da preživiš i da je prodaš na tržnici, pomisli. Ubio si je iz ponosa i zato što si ribar. Volio si je dok je bila živa, i volio si je i poslije toga. Ako je voliš, nije grijeh ubiti je. Ili je možda zato još ve?i grijeh?

Quién va a corromperle a usted? ¿Quién corrompe a un joven como usted, que bebe alcohol de quemar, con una botella de Marsala?

Don't you know it is wrong to kill? Yes. But you do it? Yes. And you still believe absolutely that your cause is right? Yes.

you have to discard the old moralities, values and belief structures, you have to look for what is authentic in yourself.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch." "Yes." "It's sort of what we have instead of God.

We must live with our own conscience. Each and every one of us must live with his own conscience.

The course of the world constantly and inevitably frustrates our moral demands.

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

Jesus would rather have us do what is right than what is "Christian." Earlier

The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.

Si se vive de acuerdo con la conciencia, la fe no es tan importante.»

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Despite living in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom in America, the practice of policing sexuality has continued unabated since the days of the Puritans.

Sex without sin is like an egg without salt. —Luis Buñuel