Quotes About Morality

Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody --has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much .

That would be just dandy. All we'd have to do is sit back and wait for them to wipe each other out. But that doesn't explain the message written in blood. That's the mark of a seriously deranged mind. An intelligent mind, but one without a conscience.

Ray-Ray had been on track for a golden-rule life of selfless service.

Our choices lie between the lesser of two evils, but it is still within our power to make these choices

That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.

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Like every other hypocrite alive, he was very good at applying unyielding standards to others. Bozic

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city. There are no limits in war, Volger said, still staring out the window.

Al diablo ahora mismo vendería mi alma si yo no fuese el diablo mismo!

Good and evil come Unannounced, to Mankind:

Pasión! ¡Embriaguez!¡Demencia! ¡Todo esto es letra muerta para vosotros, impasibles moralistas!

e così, chi sei infine? Io sono una parte di quella forza che eternamente vuole il male e eternamente compie il bene.

No, mi corazón no está tan corrompido. Es débil, demasiado débil... Pero, en esto, ¿no hay corrupción?

The most dangerous of all books, so far as the history of the world is concerned, is indubitably the Bible, because no other book has brought so much good and so much evil to the human race.

Edel sei der Mensch, hilfreich und gut! Denn das allein unterscheidet ihn von allen Wesen, die wir kennen.

La doctrina del egoísmo es y seguirá siendo guardarse a sí mismo, no lo es ni la gratitud ni el deber ni el respeto.

un hombre bueno, incluso extraviado en la oscuridad, es consciente del buen camino.

Un hombre formado según las reglas, jamás producirá nada absurdo y absolutamente malo, así como el que obra con sujeción a las leyes y a la urbanidad nunca puede ser un vecino insoportable ni un gran malvado. Sin embargo, y dígase lo que se quiera, toda regla asfixia los verdaderos sentimientos y destruye la verdadera expresión de la naturaleza.

Alles in der Welt läuft doch auf eine Lumperei hinaus und ein Mensch, der um anderer Willen, ohne daß es seine eigene Leidenschaft, sein eigenes Bedürfnis ist, sich um Geld oder Ehre oder sonst was abarbeitet, ist immer ein Tor.

Nadie sabe lo que hace mientras actúa correctamente, pero de lo que está mal uno siempre es consciente.

Personalmente preferisco sopportare nel mio ambiente errori e infrazioni fino a quando posso imporre la virtù contraria, piuttosto che liberarmi dell'errore senza vederlo sostituito da nulla di corretto. L'essere umano ama fare il bene, l'utile, se solo riesce ad arrivarci; lo fa per fare qualcosa e non riflette in merito più di quanto non faccia su quegli sciocchi scherzi che compie per ozio e noia.

77 The man who is up and doing should see to it that what he does is right. Whether or not right is done, is a matter which should not trouble him.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.