Quotes About Morality

Can we imagine a city dweller who does not have the soul of a murderer?

no reproach proceeding from men or gods can affect me: I have as good a conscience as if I had never existed.

To be a Raskolnikov — without the excuse of murder.

Annas and Caiaphas embodied, to my eyes, good sense itself.

At this precise moment, no reproach proceeding from men or gods can affect me: I have as good a conscience as if I had never existed.

For at any price we must keep those who have too clear a conscience from living and dying in peace.

The confessional? a rape of conscience perpetrated in the name of heaven. And that other rape, psychological analysis

Quant aux événements privés qui passent généralement pour être les causes prochaines du suicide, ils n'ont d'autre action que celle que leur prêtent les dispositions morales de la victime, écho de l'état moral de la société.

A ciência pode perfeitamente nos dizer de que maneira as causas produzem seus efeitos, não que finalidades devem ser buscadas; ela observa, explica, mas não julga: o bem e o mal não existem para ela.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer.

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain.

Do something a bit shit, like getting in a fight outside the TAB or getting a DUI, and people around here will bag the hell out of you. But something beyond the pale - beat your wife, hurt your kid, stalk a bloke because you think he murdered your sister - those things go unspoken.

A person will be considered dead if his conscience has died and cannot demand his basic rights.

Sometimes I feel how foolish were the people who made weapons, when behavior of people can kill a person from inside out.

We must avoid from the person before which legitimate and unlegitimate thingsor works are equal.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the State is, from the standpoint of the State, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue. It bears the name patriotism, and it constitutes the entire transcendent morality of the State.

Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly and always be spoiled at this trade. Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this demoralization; they are: contempt for the masses and the over-estimation of one's own merits.