Quotes About Morality

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

There is no such thing as a clever crook. If he was really that clever he wouldn't be a crook at all.

Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Guilt is never to be doubted.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

No,' said the priest, 'we must not accept everything is true, we must only accept it is necessary.' 'A dismal thought,' said K., 'it makes untruth into a universal principle.

DEAR NEPHEW,    As you will already have realized during our much too brief companionship, I am essentially a man of principle. That is unpleasant and depressing not only to those who come in contact with me, but also to myself as well. Yet it is my principles that have made me what I am, and no one can ask me to deny my fundamental self. Not even you, my dear nephew.

I've written already, the trip could only be made feasible by a lie and of lying I'm afraid, not like a man of honour, but like a pupil.

Omoar?-m?, altfel e?ti un uciga?.

We're only being punished because you reported us. Otherwise nothing would have happened to us, even if they found out what we did. Can that be called justice?

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Ihminen valehtelee mahdollisimman vähän vain valehdellessaan mahdollisimman vähän, ei silloin kun hänellä on siihen vähiten tilaisuuksia.

We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

58. Ä°nsan ancak olabildiÄŸince az yalan söylediÄŸinde olabildiÄŸince az yalan söylemiÅŸ olur; yoksa olabildiÄŸince az yalan söyleme f?rsat?n? bulduÄŸunda deÄŸil.

51. Trzeba by?o po?rednictwa w??a; z?o mo?e uwie?? cz?owieka, ale nie mo?e zosta? cz?owiekiem.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Man without conscience is wilder and more dangerous than any beast.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.