Quotes About Morality

You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either.

The arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

It is very questionable in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

On my honor, I believe it is characteristic of virtue to have nothing to do with riches!" thought he.

Money without honor is a disease

My dears, as long as a man is a minister, adore him; when he falls, help drag him in the gutter.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

The man who hastens to tell another man that he has dropped a thousand franc bill from his pocket-book, or even that the handkerchief is coming out of his pocket, would think it a mean thing to warn him that some one was carrying off his wife.

At all hours the financier is trampling on the living, the attorney on the dead, the pleader on the conscience. Forced to be speaking without a rest, they all substitute words for ideas, phrases for feelings, and their soul becomes a larynx.

The most virtuous women have in them something that is never chaste.

The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.

Girls brought up as you were, in a very strait-laced and puritan fashion, always pant for liberty and happiness, and the happiness they have never comes up to what they imagined.

Then, let every one question his conscience on this point, and search his memory if he has ever met a man who confined himself to the love of one woman only!

A virtuous woman has in her heart one fibre less or one fibre more than other women; she is either stupid or sublime.

If a man strike his mistress it is a self-inflicted wound; but if he strike his wife it is suicide!

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

So thorough an old maid as Sylvie was certain to make good progress in the way of salvation.

If the role of an honest woman were nothing more than perilous ... I would admit that it would serve. But it is tiresome; and I have never met a virtuous woman who did not think about deceiving somebody.

Further, we acknowledge that, to the credit of our age, we meet, ever since the revival of morality and religion and during our own times, some women, here and there, so moral, so religious, so devoted to their duties, so upright, so precise, so stiff, so virtuous, so--that the devil himself dare not even look at them; they are guarded on all sides by rosaries, hours of prayer and directors. Pshaw!

I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don't get slimy at night because they're drunk, they get slimy because they're already slimy to begin with. I

Non si diventa volgari per colpa dell'alcol: si diventa volgari perché lo si è già.