Quotes About Morality

Grub first, then ethics.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.

One day somebody asked Herr K. if there was a God. Herr K. replied: "I suggest that you ask yourself whether the answer would effect your behavior. If your behavior would remain unchanged, then we can drop the question. If it would change, then I can at least be of assistance to you by telling you that you have already decided: you need a God.

Wer die Wahrheit nicht weiß, der ist bloß ein Dummkopf. Aber wer sie weiß und sie eine Lüge nennt, der ist ein Verbrecher.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

I can't abide injustice.

Where else are you going to get morality from, is what I say? Peace is just piggishness, it takes war to establish order.

Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!" Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.

Selflessness is a rare virtue, because it doesn't pay for itself.

Potkupljivost je u ljudi isto što u Boga milosr?e.

The Ballad of Mac the Knife Fair in Soho. The beggars are begging, the thieves are stealing, the whores are whoring. A ballad singer sings a ballad. See the shark with teeth like razors. All can read his open face. And Macheath has got a knife, but Not in such an obvious place. See the shark, how red his fins are As he slashes at his prey. Mac the Knife wears white kid gloves which Give the minimum away.

Es curioso. Cuando se oye hablar a los señorones, sólo hacen la guerra por el temor de Dios y por todo lo que es bueno y hermoso. Pero si bien se mira no son tan tontos y hacen la guerra por la ganancia.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Vi što nas u?ite da živeti treba Bez greha i bez misli kakve zle, Morate najpre da nam date hleba, Pa tad zborite: s tim po?inje sve. Svi vi što volite svoj trbuh i naš rad Pamtite dobro, za ceo vek: Ma kako stvari obrtali sad, Prvo je ždranje. Moral - potom tek. Siromah mora prvo mo?i, zna se, Deo poga?e da odse?e zna se.

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

We may define a Puritan as a man who holds that certain kinds of acts, even if they have no visible bad effects upon others than the agent, are inherently sinful, and, being sinful, ought to be prevented by whatever means is most effectual - the criminal law if possible, and, if not that, then public opinion backed by economic pressure.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.