Quotes About Morality

No. The question is: how to be a good person if I don't believe anymore.

Like, in Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp is one big ambition machine. She'll stop at zero. Jane Eyre has temper tantrums, throws herself on the floor. Pip in Great Expectations is deluded and money hungry. All of them want a better life and go after it, and all of them are morally compromised. That makes them interesting.

I am not sure I'm a good person" he said after a while. "I'm not sure I am, either" I said.

We should not let the family fall apart. We should not accept an evil we can change. We would stand up against it, would we not? Yes. We should. We would be heroes, even.

Do not accept an evil you can change." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Do not accept an evil you can change

Do not accept an evil you can change - Gat

Do not accept an evil you can change. (p.101)

we should not accept an evil we can change

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

She asked if she could pray for her 'new father'—for the Italian!" "Did you let her?" "I got up without saying anything." "You must have felt just as you did when I wanted to pray for the devil." "He is the devil," cried Harriet. "No, Harriet; he is too vulgar.

Pathos, piety, courage, —they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

He had acted wrongly, and was still being punished—but wrongly because he had tried to get the best of both worlds.

The Catholic Church lost the Culture Wars in 1965 when it failed to block pornography. Within seven years, hard-core pornographic films like Deep Throat (1972) and the Devil in Miss Jones (1973) were being shown in first run theaters, and Jewish power over the culture increased accordingly.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

Tria questioned the morality of even that type of illicit entry. But her need and the enthusiasm of Rehanne and Lina persuaded her to agree to the attempt, despite her strong mistrust of spells. The room door was locked, the

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race.

Ting-Tang stopped moving, although he did turn his head to look at Audun. "You've really never eaten anyone?" "Never!" said Audun. "My wife would never forgive me if I did.

A dwarf will fight for honor, but a man will kill for pride." Auron thought for a moment. "What's the difference?" "Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity.

To have the vice of scruple - to be an automaton of remorse.