Quotes About Morality

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful? Someone kind or cruel? Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

bunny was a good soul and a strong believer but she would have been that way whether she went to church or not, wouldn't she. church doesn't make you a better person.

If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy in particular.

For remember always the maxim: He who would know right must first know wrong!

He who would know right must first know wrong!

You're not really afraid you'll hurt him. You're afraid because you believe it was wrong even to think it. But having a thought, even an awful one, is different from acting on it. All the difference in the world.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

A man does what he feels is right, no matter what it costs him.

Andy said, "Yonder goes a man who hates the sin, but he's willin' enough to take its wages." Shanty replied, "I'm glad I won't be wearin' his shoes when he walks up to the Golden Gates." "He's wearin' better shoes than me and you." "I'd rather be barefooted.

callar es una virtud muy valiosa cuando vives en el infierno y te toca hablar con el diablo.

Gratitude is the least remembered of all virtues but is the acid test of character.

Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.

I always felt, you don't have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.

One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.

To sum it up, your father is morally corrupt and worthless. ..If you'd like an elaborated version: He is a rotter who wishes to be king, I also think he's annoyed by the fact that he's turned out to be a member of the human race and thereby vulnerable to death. Lady Joan Wilde

Don't you mean to lecture me on the evils of illicit relationships?' 'No. I am quite certain you are aware of the disagreeable consequences if the /ton/ were to discover your activities. But I have found that occasionally a small peccadillo that harms no one can be conducive to a cheerful disposition.

Una speranza, a volte, indebolisce le coscienze, come un vizio.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

She's no angel. He's no saint.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.