Quotes About Morality

All her life she had striven to do the right thing, but right according to whom?

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

The law doesn't always know what it's doing. Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.

The law doesn't always know what it's doing,' he adds for good measure. 'Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.

Maybe this is karma.

The great thing about legal training is it really teaches you to lie.

Once you've started cheating, does it matter what your methods are?

I tell myself to look away, but the truth is, I don't want to look away. I want to be drawn into his gaze. Which is dumb. And wrong. He belongs to another woman, I remind myself sternly. He likes whiny, shouty, newsreadery-type women.

It is not right if I am wrong. But if I am young, and right, what does my age matter?

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.

I was born to share love, not hate", said Antigone. "Go then, and share your love for the dead", responds Creon.

The end excuses any evil.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right

I say that this crime is holy.

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing out the way to infamy and shame. - Creon

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.

The good befriend themselves.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good. - Creon

Things gained by unjust fraud are never secure

The blackest things a man can do, I have done them all!

Tis better not to be than to vilely live. Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.