Quotes About Morality

To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil...?

I'm a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted.

We are an experiment in situation ethics set by the unnamed god.

Evil is moral at its heart—the selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience

someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up.

La gente que dice ser malvada no suele ser peor que el resto de nosotros -suspiró-. Pero la gente que dice ser buena, o mejor que los demás en algún aspecto, esa gente sí que es peligrosa.

Boq returned the smile, warmly. Glinda used her glitter beads, and you used your exotic looks and background, but weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what you had in order to get what you wanted? People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. He sighed. It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Nunca uso las palabras humanista o humanitario, porque, para mí, el ser humano es capaz de cometer los crímenes más atroces de la naturaleza.

Eu nunca uso as palavras humanista ou humanitário, pois me parece que ser humano significa ser capaz dos crimes mais hediondos da natureza.

She claims they give her moral virtue too, but then she has buckets more of that than she needs.

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her—is it every the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her—is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

Now he was the minister and she the sinner, an arrangement she did not particularly enjoy.

If we forgo matters of right and wrong on a human scale, we invite disaster in every door and window and via every mountain pass and harbor.

I do not listen when anyone uses the word "immoral". In the young it is ridiculous. In the old, it is sententious and reactionary. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.

I do not listen when anyone uses the word 'immoral'. In the young it is ridiculous. In the old, it is sententious and reactionary. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her -- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions.

Será que o diabo já se esforçou para ser bom de novo ou, se fizer isso, não é um demônio?

You lie, cheat and steal and call it courtesy, cunning and thrift.

One never learns how the witch becomes wicked or if it was the right choice for he — is it ever the right choice?

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex.

she heard Mrs. Brummidge hiss at Rhoda, "Unseemly!" with the same tone of scandal she might have used had she been saying "Strumpet!" or "Baptist!

The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the habitual language of a people is a barometer of their intellectual, civil, moral, and spiritual ideals. A great and noble people express themselves in great and noble words. Ruskin

Let's say that Person 1 thinks their hair dryer is telling them to shoot every redhead who gets on the 9:04 train. And let's say Person 2 thinks their hair dryer is telling them to volunteer twice a week at a homeless shelter. Is it better to volunteer at a homeless shelter than it is to shoot every redhead who gets on the 9:04 train? Of course it is. But you still have a basic problem — which is that you think your hair dryer is talking to you.