Quotes About Morality

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.

From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.

The rich can afford to be virtuous, the poor must shift as best they can.

For Justine's conception of virtue is a specifically feminine one in that sexual abstinence plays a large part in it. In common speech, a 'bad boy' may be a thief, or a drunkard, or a liar, and not necessarily just a womaniser. But a 'bad girl' always contains the meaning of a sexually active girl and Justine knows she is good because she does not fuck.

Un orrore morale tale da pervadere visibilmente i lineamenti! Non si era mai visto nulla di simile. Eravamo piuttosto sorprese, e ci sentimmo persino scorrette, come se noi vivessimo in un crepuscolo etico, in un pidocchioso mondo di compromessi, menzogne, giochi di prestigio applicati ai sentimenti. E così era, credo. La chiamavamo "Vita".

Life isn't about having things, Grandmother. It's about being a decent person.

The Romans didn't base their laws on a morality derived from a Judeo-Christian ethic. Roman laws had more to do with what was beneficial for Rome and Romans.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

The South has incorporated slavery into religion; that is the most fearful thing in this rebellion. They are fighting, verily believing that they are doing God service.

Septimus look at Jenna, his green eyes serious, "It's a luxury Jen," he said. "What do you mean?" Septimus stared at the scraped and bloody snow at his feet. It took him some moments to reply. "I mean…" he began slowly. "I mean that if you go through life and never face a situation where, in order for your to survive, someone else has to die, then you're lucky. That's what I mean.

She would happily send a rat hurtling to its doom and yet risk her life for a duck.

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

To remain pure a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

People feel at home with low moral standards. It is scruples that put them off.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.

I am a Christian, you know, Julia.' So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can.

You're saying that wealthy men can commit sins that would condemn a poor man.

He was a man who'd turned his personal likes and dislikes into a moral code; because he didn't enjoy spending money in the Woodyard cafe, there was something morally suspect about the people who did. The Brethren had been much the same. Matthew thought they'd created a God in their own image, hard, cold and inflexible.

to side with the scrotes.

After all, it was easy enough to be virtuous if there was no temptation.

We tend to give a moral weight to the things with which we're most comfortable, don't you think?