Quotes About Morality

The entire history of evil in this world is related to what human beings do to one another in order to survive.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

the Jews believe each life is a universe, and if you take a life, well, then you are destroying a universe.

because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

Oh, not goodness again," he said. "You and your malady of mortality, and your malady of goodness.

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality.

La gente que cesa de creer en dios o en la bondad todavía suele creer en el demonio. No sé por qué. O sí lo sé: la maldad es siempre posible, la bondad es una dificultad eterna.

I am not time's fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape, nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong. I know what I do, and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer. Do with it what you will.

Evil is a point of view.

Good and evil, those are concepts man has made. And man is better, really, than the Savage Garden.

Evil is a point of view. God kills, indiscriminately, and so shall we. He takes the richest and the poorest, as so shall we, for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves

Acaso no sería mejor el mundo si nunca más se quemara a nadie en el nombre de Dios? —pregunté—. ¿Si no se continuara creyendo que Dios puede ordenar al hombre hacer tal cosa a su semejante? ¿Cuál es el peligro de un mundo racional donde horrores como éste no se produzcan?

An artist, stealing paints from a store, for example, imagines himself to have made an inevitable but immoral decision, and then he sees himself as fallen from grace; what follows is despair and petty irresponsibility, as if morality were a great glass world which can be utterly shattered by one act.

Žmon?s, nustoj? tik?ti Dievu ir g?riu, ima tik?ti š?tonu. Nežinau, kod?l. Ne, išties žinau, kod?l. Blogis visur ?manomas. O su g?riu situacija amžinai kebli.

Si alguna vez estás dispuesto a vender tu alma, no te molestes en vendérsela a otro ser humano. Es un mal negocio, no vale la pena ni tenerlo en cuenta.

Chi ha smesso di credere in Dio o nel bene continua lo stesso a credere nel diavolo. Non so perché. No, anzi, lo so: il male è sempre possibile. E il bene è eternamente difficile.

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence... to lose the false sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.

each being wars with his own angels and devils, each being succumbs to an essential set of values, a theme, as it were, which is inseparable from living a proper life.

Chi ha smesso di credere in Dio o nel bene continua lo stesso a credere nel diavolo. Non so perché. No, anzi, lo so: il male è sempre possibile. E il bene è eternamente difficile.»

Essere ateo è probabilmente il primo passo per giungere all'innocenza», continuò Marius. «Perdere il senso del peccato e della subordinazione e il falso rimpianto per le cose perdute.» «Quindi, per innocenza tu non intendi la mancanza di esperienza ma l'assenza di illusioni.» «L'assenza del bisogno di illusioni», rispose lui.

Rape is unmanly.

La gente que deja de creer en Dios, o en la bondad, sigue creyendo en el demonio. No sé por qué. No; sé muy bien por qué. El mal siempre es posible. Y la bondad es eternamente difícil.

And won't you take absolution from me, Vittorio!" he said. His voice rose, and his chest seemed to increase in size. "Vittorio and Ursula, take my absolution." "No, Father," I said. "we cannot take it. We don't want it." "But why?" "Because, Father," said Ursula kindly, "we plan to sin again as soon as we possibly can.

The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But