Quotes About Morality

Donc pas d erreur? Ce qu on faisait a se tirer dessus, comme ca, sans meme se voir, n etait pas defendu! Cela faisait partie des choses qu on peut faire sans meriter une bonne engueulade.

Donc pas d'erreur Ce qu'on faisait à se tirer dessus comme ça sans même se voir n'était pas défendu Cela faisait partie des choses qu'on peut faire sans mériter une bonne engueulade. C'était même reconnu encouragé sans doute par les gens sérieux comme le tirage au sort les fiançailles la chasse à courre ... Rien à dire. Je venais de découvrir d'un coup la guerre tout entière. Je venais d'être dépucelé.

There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good people from bad.

Gelecekten söz eden her kimse namussuzdur,tek geçerli olan güncel oland?r.Kendi ölümsüzlüÄŸüne deÄŸinmek,solucanlara söylev çekmeye benzer.

A slave must at all costs be slightly, if not superlatively, contemptible. An assortment of chronic moral and physical defects justifies the horrible treatment he is getting. Then the earth turns more smoothly, for each man occupies the place he deserves. A person you make use of should

The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one. It's only natural.

I didn't believe he would, but I refused to bet, because I wanted to tell Mrs. Allan all about everything, and I felt sure it wouldn't do to tell her that. It's always wrong to do anything you can't tell the minister's wife.

I kind of felt I shouldn't shorten their lovely lives by picking them—I wouldn't want to be picked if I were an apple blossom. But the temptation was irresistible. What do you do when you meet with an irresistible temptation?

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Conscience is the voice of God.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i.e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.

It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)

Man kann vernünftigerweise nicht einmal auf Hitler eine Wut haben, wieviel weniger auf Gott.

If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it, it is like investigating mercury vapor in order to comprehend the nature of vapors.

One cannot reasonably be angry even at Hitler, let alone at God.

For the drama lies all in this—in the conscience that I have, that each one of us has. We believe this conscience to be a single thing, but it is many-sided.

È molto più facile essere un eroe che un galantuomo. Eroi si può essere una volta tanto; galantuomini, si dev'esser sempre.

Dizem que a lei existe para contrariar a natureza. Se o Homem sempre seguisse seus instintos naturais e matasse, roubasse e passasse a mão na bunda do próximo sem qualquer punição, onde estaríamos? No Brasil, acertou.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments.

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.