Quotes About Morality

A villain who despairs of his villainy has not become a hero. A hero is something positive, not just the absence of evil.

Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

Um herói é algo positivo, não apenas a ausência do mal.

You decide that you will start treating Old Testament God, with all His terrible and oft-arbitrary-seeming power, as if He could also be New Testament God (even though you understand the many ways in which that is absurd). In other words, you decide to act as if existence might be justified by its goodness—if only you behaved properly. And it is that decision, that declaration of existential faith, that allows you to overcome nihilism, and resentment, and arrogance.

Christianity made explicit the surprising claim that even the lowliest person had rights, genuine rights—and that sovereign and state were morally charged, at a fundamental level, to recognize those rights. Christianity put forward, explicitly, the even more incomprehensible idea that the act of human ownership degraded the slaver (previously viewed as admirable nobility) as much or even more than the slave.

We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own

A rabbit isn't virtuous, it just can't do anything except getting eaten. It's not virtuous. If you're a monster and you don't act monstrously, then that's virtuous.

There's almost nothing better than character development. And aiming at having a good character is the highest aim, and it's the aim that will provide the most meaning in your life.

I act as if God exists.

We become like those pious people who, over time, accumulate a sense of their own virtuousness so powerful as to make them believe the bad things they do are virtuous too.

Starker [Leopold] had an adage for people in public service: 'If you're ashamed of it, don't do it. If you're not, publicize it.' " -David Graber, wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park

You cannot have proper respect for yourself until you know that you're a monster.

If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change, he changes you.

Miquel soltó una bocanada de aire. Cuando era inspector solía decir que nadie es bueno ni malo, que todo depende de las circunstancias.Y decía que cada ser humano tenía luces y sombras.

Desconfiem e se afastem dos indivíduos que adulam os poderosos e pisoteiam os desprotegidos, são de ruim caráter, falsos e mesquinhos, faltos de grandeza.

Feio! Onde já se viu homem feio ou bonito? A beleza do homem, desgraçada, não está na cara, está é no caráter, na sua posição social, em suas posses. Onde já se viu homem rico ser feio?

Dona Rosàlia non avrebbe mai creduto che una prostituta si potesse suicidare per amore. Una prostituta si uccide per castigo dei suoi peccati, amen.

Vão alegres. Levam navalhas e punhais nas calças. Mas só os sacarão se os outros puxarem. Porque os meninos abandonados também têm uma lei e uma moral, um sentido de dignidade humana.

Una muchacha decente tiene que ver inmoralidades en el cine, porque hay cosas que es indispensable saber

La gente espera que la policía sea incorrupta, pero ¿por qué ha de serlo, si todos somos humanos?

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

pero sé que hay hombres buenos y malos, y que estos reflejan en su dios, predicando falsamente en su nombre, sus propias miserias.

Nem volt szükség a táborokra, hogy megtudjuk: az ember egyaránt képes a legjobbra és a legrosszabbra.

Traduzco: no es necesario cometer un delito para ser un delincuente.