Quotes About Morality

Great praxis demands great piety.

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

Covetous of others' possessions, he [Catiline] was prodigal of his own.

A city for sale and soon to perish if it finds a buyer!

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

malis moribus, maxima spe

ita in maximâ fortunâ minima licentia est;

imitari quam invidere bonis malebant.

omnia mala exempla ex rebus bonis orta sunt.

magis quid se dignum foret, quam quid in illos iure fieri posset, quaerebant.

In the absence of biblical conviction, people will go the way of culture.

We should never expect the world to behave according to our morality, our standards of holiness, or our wisdom. Jesus would still call us to "owe them our love" to fulfill the law.

There is always a price to pay when one tinkers with the truth.

think my father came to believe long ago what Rhett Butler told Scarlett: reputation is something people with character can do without. Character and character

I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of the pictures I made. ... Oscar Wilde, when attacked in a similar ad hominem way, insisted that it is senseless to speak of morality when discussing art, asserting that the hypocritical, prudish, and philistine English public, when unable to find the art in a work of art, instead looked for the main in it.

We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don't worth the innocence. And innocent people remain the sufferer and vulnerable to the world.

We live kind of society where people scold you for wearing crop clothes. But for their own pleasure and entertainment this society tears your clothes apart to see your naked body. Even the society forces you to strip down your clothes for their hidden satisfaction. But in front of all they just say you are so nasty.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't; it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything. It just keeps you from enjoying it.

You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair in love an war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously...