Quotes About Morality

When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall back again into the monotonous but safe stride of virtue as soon as his little excursion into the wayside quagmires had produced the desired effect.

I only know that he who makes a tie is lost, the seed of corruption has entered his heart

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.

el capitalismo al estilo americano— está modelando de maneras poco afortunadas nuestra identidad individual y como nación. Lo que aflora es un conflicto con nuestros valores más elevados: la codicia, el egoísmo, la abyección moral, la disposición a explotar a otros y la deshonestidad que la Gran Recesión puso de manifiesto en el sector financiero se evidencian hoy en todos lados, no solo en Estados Unidos.

Just as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib have eroded America's moral authority, so the Bush administration's fiscal housekeeping has eroded our economic authority.

experiments show that bankers—especially when they are reminded that they are bankers—act in a more dishonest and selfish way.50 They are shaped by their profession

Most of us could still sleep decently if accused of any of the other six deadly sins; but to be accused of envy would be seriously distressing, so clearly does such an accusation go directly to character.

the so-called sexual revolution, for example, "rather a prim term for the lurid carnival that actually took place.

He never bragged about how well he had done in business, but it was clear that he was pleased by the fact that, living by his few tight moral maxims—keep your overhead low, don't live beyond your means, always put something away for a rainy day—he had come out a winner. Always a methodical businessman, my

Die Götter der Mythen handelten mit einem Maß an Kleinlichkeit, Missgunst und oberflächlicher Moral, das selbst verglichen mit den verkommenen moralischen Maßstäben unserer eigenen Kultur in keinem Verhältnis zu der Macht steht, die sie ausübten.

The second unwholesome action to avoid is stealing—taking that which doesn't belong to us.

The entire spiritual journey rests on the morality of nonharming. This is the expression of the love and care we feel both for others and for ourselves.

For spiritual practice to develop, it is absolutely essential that we establish a basis of moral conduct in our lives.

The third unskillful action, sexual misconduct

Lying is the first in this group of unskillful verbal actions.

The second skillful action is morality (sila in Pali). In his praise of Ghatikara above, the Buddha Kassapa reiterates the five basic precepts of nonharming: refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, and taking intoxicants.

When sila is strong, we are saying with our actions that no one need fear us. This is one of the greatest contributions we can give to the world, for our nonharming offers the gift of safety and trust to all those around us. And last, morality brings us the peace of nonremorse.

Generosity, morality, respect, service, listening to the Dharma, and meditation—these are actions for the good. Each one is a practice that can be cultivated and further refined, becoming the causes for our own happiness and the happiness of others.

this quintessential Zen statement: "There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

The Pali word parami refers to ten wholesome qualities in our minds and the accumulated power they bring to us: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, lovingkindness, and equanimity.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.