Quotes About Morality

I shouldn't be surprised. Catholicism is the ultimate loophole religion (sin, confess, repeat), so it makes sense that a priest would know better than anyone how to work the angles. Still, when you go to confession and say, Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned, you don't expect him to say, So, who hasn't?

Father Angelo makes me uncomfortable. For starters, he's way too good-looking for a priest, his dark bedroom eyes and athletic build arousing exactly the kind of impure thoughts you're supposed to go to church to get rid of.

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a right to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty, to feel empathy rather than cold indifference, to feel animals' pain in our hearts.

It's about how to create a culture where doing well is synonymous with doing good in order to thrive in a world where a company is only as strong as the principles it adopts.

La maldad existe, pero es inmaterial. Un epifenómeno de la voluntad humana.

Cuanto más depravado se vuelve un pueblo, más se indigna públicamente contra la inmoralidad.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.

no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains:

Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from "good families.