Quotes About Morality

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

I believe any time you have the courage to stand for what is right, especially in situations where no one else is willing to do so, you are creating a holy place.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

Oh, I steal things all the time. It's just something I do. I stopped caring a long time ago.

Si hay algo en el mundo que me divierta de veras es el espectáculo de sus luchas mentales cuando una cuestión de principio está en pugna con una cuestión práctica, como es el dinero. Naturalmente, en usted el lado práctico siempre vence, pero yo continúo a su alrededor para ver si el lado mejor de su naturaleza logra triunfar algún día. Y, cuando llegue ese día, haré la maleta y me marcharé

Knowledge isn't evil, in and of itself. It's what people choose to do with their knowledge that makes the difference. I think it matters what you want knowledge for . And what you're willing to sacrifice to get it.

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.

Scientific discoveries usually aren't good or evil just by themselves. Science is neutral. It's what people do with their knowledge that matters.

Åžimdi benden de güce ya da kendi karar?m? verme hakk?na sahip olmas?z?n yaln?zca bir öpücük veya tatl? bir f?s?lt?yla seviÅŸip, kad?nlarla erkeklerin yatak odalar?nda yapt?klar? diÄŸer tüm ÅŸeyleri yaparak ikna gücümü kullanmam m? isteniyordu? Maalesef bunu düÅŸünmek bile midemi buland?r?yordu. (syf. 50)

Be thankful you can feel pity and horror at the death of an enemy. The day we cease to care, even for our enemies, is the day we have lost this battle.

Theros Ironfeld said once that—in all the years he had lived—he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil.

When the good holds sway) it breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong. - Palidine, Chief God of Good

Ma... dirlo così... come potrei. Come si può valutare una cosa simile... il disonore? Non dobbiamo valutare una cosa simile, signora. Deve dirmi che somma le piacerebbe avere.

He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She

Anything morally worthy in ourselves is corrupted if we wish to admire ourselves. And someone else remarked that there are no mirrors in heaven. There couldn't be, for the mirror is the symbolic antithesis of a glad, free offering of our full attention to

La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica.

Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations upon a void; I wondered if that increasing vacuity was due to the lowering of intelligence or to moral decline; whatever the cause, mediocrity of mind was matched almost everywhere by shocking selfishness and dishonesty.

La moral es una convención privada; la decencia, una cuestión pública

Pero mi hipocresía era menos grosera de lo que pensaban: todo placer regido por el gusto me parecía casto.

Vous avez cru qu'il suffisait d'être parfaite pour être heureuse ; j'ai cru suffisant, pour être heureux, de n'être plus coupable.

Il est étrange que pour nos chrétiens les prétendues désordres de la chair constituent le mal par excellence, dit méditativement Zénon. Personne ne punit avec rage et dégoût la brutalité, la sauvagerie, la barbarie, l'injustice. Nul demain ne s'avisera de trouver obscènes les bonnes gens qui viendront regarder mes tressautements dans les flammes.

L'incivilimento dei costumi, il progresso delle idee durante l'ultimo secolo è opera d'una minoranza esigua di spiriti illuminati; la massa resta ignara, feroce quando può, sempre egoista e gretta, e si può scommettere fondatamente che tale resterà sempre.

Le danger fait sortir le pire de l'âme humaine, et le meilleur aussi.

N'ayant pas pu vivre selon la morale ordinaire, je tâche, du moins, d'être d'accord avec la mienne : c'est au moment où l'on rejette tous les principes qu'il convient de se munir de scrupules. J'avais pris envers vous d'imprudents engagements que devait protester la vie : je vous demande pardon, le plus humblement possible, non pas de vous quitter, mais d'être resté si longtemps.