Quotes About Morality

All true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end: and which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion, to be left to every man's conscience.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

She has more goodness in her little finger, than he has in his whole body.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there.

If children see temper uncontrolled, hear gossip, uncharitableness and suspicion of neighbors, witness arrogant sharp-dealing or lax honor, their own characters can scarcely escape perversion. In the same way others can not easily fail to be thoroughbred who have never seen or heard their parents do or say an ignoble thing.

Left or right, which will you take? For both of them your heart will break. One is cruel, one is fair, One a passage, one a snare. Choose the one that hides the light, And you will know your path is right.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Pardon me, madam, if I have little respect for honor. I think it's only a euphemism for double standard and hypocrisy. - Clay Sutherland

existe un límite? ¿Causas que te negarías a defender? «Si me preguntas eso, quiere decir que no has comprendido qué es ser abogado. Yo no defiendo ninguna causa, pero no rechazo a ningún acusado.

J'ai pensé qu'écrire cette histoire ne pouvait être qu'un crime ou une prière.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

They are not all saints who use holy water.