Quotes About Morality

Perhaps the ultimate act of evil is dehumanization, the killing of the soul

Le bien est un choix. Tout homme incapable de choisir cesse d'être un homme.

A human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange.

Es tan inhumano ser totalmente bueno como totalmente malvado. Lo importante es la elección moral.

Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi? (syf. 84)

Goodness comes from within. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

tanr?n?n istediÄŸi iyilik mi yoksa iyiliÄŸi seçebilme ÅŸans?na sahip olabilmek mi? kötülüÄŸü seçen biri gerçekte iyiliÄŸe zorlanan birinden daha m? geçerli tanr?n?n gözünde?

Nincs választási lehetÅ'sége, vagy igen? Az önérdek, a testi fájdalomtól való rettegés bírta rá erre a groteszk megalázkodásra. A dolog Å'szintétlensége nyilvánvaló volt. Többé nem követ el rosszat. De nem is lesz lehetÅ'sége erkölcsi választásra.

What does God want? Does God want woodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

Bizim elimizde kapa??n? açmay? reddettiÄŸimiz bir ÅŸiÅŸe su su varken yan?m?zda susuzluktan ölen birine aÄŸlamak kötülüklerin en büyüÄŸüdür...

Nem jobb-e bizonyos értelemben az, aki a rosszat választja, mint az, akire rákényszerítik a jót?

Do good a thousand days,     But the good is still insufficient;     Do evil for one day,     And that evil is already excessive.

He saw that as usual it would be better to be careful as for some years now he had found being good to be almost out of the question.

His own relations with the opposite sex took an exclusively commercial form. 'I've never had a free poke in my life,' he said. 'Subject doesn't seem to arise when you're talking to a respectable woman.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." —JOHN WOODEN

Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.

every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil!

It seems to me that if a man can so train himself that he may live honestly and die fearlessly, he has done about as much as is necessary.

Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.

Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman.

John Bold said): If an action is the right one, personal feelings must not be allowed to interfere. Of course I greatly like Mr Harding, but that is no reason for failing in my duty to those old men.

There are general laws current in the world as to morality. 'Thou shalt not steal,' for instance. That has "necessarily been current as a law through all nations. But the first man you meet in the street will have ideas about theft so different from yours, that, if you knew them as you know your own, you would say that this law and yours were not even founded on the same principle.