Quotes About Morality

Evil is a form of idiocy. Kindness is a form of intelligence.

Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Progress is the hypocrisy in which vice is refined!

One can take pride in going as far in crime as a saint in virtue.

One must bow to nature's law if one is neither impotent nor a saint.

Un pueblo irreligioso morirá, porque nada en él alimenta la virtud. Las injusticias humanas disgustan de ella; es necesario que la justicia celeste la garantice

From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.

Deben ser rigurosamente excluidas de la dirección educativa todas las influencias políticas y dogmáticas. Las primeras corrompen la moral de los educadores y rebajan el nivel de la enseñanza; las segundas conspiran contra la libertad de pensar y tienden a invadir el fuero del conciencia individual.

El hipócrita no aspira a ser virtuoso, sino a parecerlo; no admira intrínsecamente la virtud, quiere ser contado entre los virtuosos por las prebendas y honores que tal condición puede reportarle.

Los actos que al principio provocaban pudor, acaban por parecen naturales; el ojo percibe los tonos violentos como simples matices, el oído escucha las mentiras con igual respeto que las verdades, el corazón aprende a no agitarse por torpes acciones.

Los elementos intelectuales no bastan para determinar su orientación; la febledad del carácter depende tanto de la consistencia moral como de aquéllos, o más. Sin algún ingenio, es imposible ascender por los senderos de la virtud; sin alguna virtud son inaccesibles los del ingenio. En la acción van de consumo. La fuerza de las creencias está en no ser puramente racionales; pensamos con el corazón y con la cabeza.

Mientras se extiende la solidaridad del terruño a la provincia, al Estado, a la humanidad, las fuerzas inmorales del pasado siguen sembrando odio entre los pueblos, para apuntalar con el patriotismo político el régimen social de cuya injusticia se benefician.

por eso la mediocridad es moralmente peligrosa y su conjunto es nocivo en ciertos momentos de la historia: cuando reina el clima de la mediocridad.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

Isa rin akong Espanyol, pero bago ang pagiging Espanyol ay tao ako at bago ang Espanya ay sa ibabaw ng Espanya ay ang kanyang dangal, ang matataas na prinsipyo ng moralidad, ang mga walang-hanggang prinsipyo ng hindi nagbabagong katarungan!

We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If I have to commit villainy to make her happy, I would refuse to do so, because I am sure that what is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.

it's not criminals who provoke great hatred, it's honest men

Take this example: if I have killed the father of a family, if I have made of a woman a sorrowing widow and destitute orphans of some happy children, have I satisfied eternal Justice by letting myself be hanged, or by entrusting my secret to one who is obliged to guard it for me, or by giving alms to priests who are least in need of them, or by buying indulgences and lamenting night and day? What of the widow and the orphans?

You have believed that what crime and iniquity have defiled and deformed, another crime and another iniquity can purify and redeem. Wrong! Hate never produces anything but monsters and crime criminals! Love alone realizes wonderful works, virtue alone can save!

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.