Quotes About Morality

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps. SALADIN

Behind every fortune lies a great crime," said Ramirez. "Honoré de Balzac

Everything I did, I did as a matter of conscience.

She was also a gifted liar who had never been saddled with a cumbersome moral compass.

He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death - Corsican proverb

All the blackmailers and extortionists I've ever met have impeccable manners. - Julian Isherwood

We believe that a career without scandal is not a proper career at all. - Gabriel Allon

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

It slowly dawned on me: if I could lie and be quickly forgiven, there was nothing to stop me from actually doing some of the stuff I was making up. Catholicism flipped a switch and turned me on to a life of crime.

Angel and devil," he said. "One is but a shade of the other.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

Ako ne možeš da deluješ u pogibeljnoj sprezi tih protivure?nih sila, moralnih i pesni?kih, povuci se. Zalivaj kupus u svome vrtu, a ruže gaji samo na groblju. Jer ruže su pogubne po dušu.

The man who found in his heart this heretical and dangerous thought, which speaks of the futility of one's own being-in-time, finds himself, however, faced with another (final) dilemma: whether to accept the transitoriness of this being-in-time for the sake of that precious and expensively acquired knowledge (which excludes any morality and therefore is made in absolute freedom), or, for the sake of that same knowledge, to yield oneself to the embrace of nothingness.

For judges of character, there is no such thing as the color gray.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.