Quotes About Morality

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

Evil is done by oneself alone; By oneself is one defiled. Evil is avoided by oneself; By oneself alone is one purified. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; No one can purify another.

Not doing evil is happiness.

One who does evil is tormented in this life, Tormented in the next, Is tormented in both worlds. Here he is tormented, knowing, "I have done evil." Reborn in realms of woe, he is tormented all the more.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know . We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another. -- Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 73

Quando alguém pergunta para que serve a filosofia. Fazer enfim do pensamento algo agressivo, ativo e afirmativo. Fazer homens livres, isto é, homens que não confundam os fins da cultura com o proveito do Estado, da moral ou da religião (...).

We do not feel ourselves outside of our time but continue to undergo shameful compromises with it. This feeling of shame is one of philosophy's more powerful motifs. We are not responsible for the victims but responsible before them.

Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment—at least one moment—when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name?

you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy

All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality.

There's something disturbing about not even bothering with a name. Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment—at least one moment—when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name?

Imagine the jacket copr: People behaved mostly well and then they died.

You can like an immoral character because she's interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.

All those things spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality. I wont divorce him because that's exactly what he'd like. And I won't forgive him because that's I don't feel like turning the other cheek. Can I make it many more clear? I won't find that a satisfactory ending. The bad guy wins? Fuck him.

People have to do awful things for the money.

But I felt, for once, decent. Not telling-myself-I-am decent, but just decent.

The one thing I suspected about Jim Jeffreys was that he must be Christian, churchy - he had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.

Whenever i see new stories about children who were killed by their own parents i think ... but how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, They had a moment at least one moment when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child , decided what will they call their baby . How could you kill something you cared enough to name?

And missouri has the death penalty,' I said. 'Fun Game.