Quotes About Morality

By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.

Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay." Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels, we all must grapple with the consequences of our Tendency—with its strengths and its weaknesses, its foibles and its frustrations.

She eagerly meets society's rules and laws until they conflict with her own inner sense of justice—at which point she rejects them.

Make it easy to do right and hard to go wrong.

As Oscar Wilde wrote, with his characteristic brand of thought-provoking overstatement, "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." Now

He gave his assistant a stamped, addressed envelope with a check he'd written to an "anti-charity," an organization whose policies he passionately opposes, with the instruction to mail the check if he had a drink before the time was up.

all severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. An important reminder for Upholders

In an interview in the Paris Review, novelist and Rebel John Gardner made an observation that I've never forgotten: "Every time you break the law you pay, and every time you obey the law you pay.

We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don't need to go to church and kiss silver platters and dig into my pocket to fatten up a lot of humbugs who eat better than you or I do! Because he can be worshiped just as well in a wood, a field, or even just gazing at the ethereal vault, like the ancients.

So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and soul, finally come to an end?

Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.

Ä°nsan, ÅŸeytan?n yan?na yaklaÅŸmas?na izin verdi mi, art?k iradesi üzerindeki denetimini kaybeder. Gözleri kapan?r; iyiyle kötüyü, doÄŸruyla yanl??? ay?ramaz olur.

notre siècle est un siècle de putains, et ce qu'il y a de moins prostitué, jusqu'à présent, ce sont les prostituées.

Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.

Els burgesos admiraven els seu sentit de l'estalvi, els clients els seus modals, els pobres la seva caritat. I, tanmateix, era un antre de cobejances, d'odis i de ràbia.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all, and nothing more

Ce qui m'a gardé de la débauche, ce n'est pas la vertu, mais l'ironie. La bêtise du vice me fait encore plus rire de pitié que la turpitude ne me dégoûte.

Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!

Voltaire lui-même l'a dit : « Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer.

Atlar?n? çift sürmeye gönderecek yerde üzerlerine bindiÄŸinden , Elma ÅŸarab?n satacak yerde kendini içtiÄŸinden, Kümesinin en besili hayvanlar?n? yediÄŸinden, Av çizmelerini domuzlar?n?n içya??yla yaÄŸlad???ndan bütün ticareti olduÄŸu yerde b?rak?vermenin daha iyi olaca??n? anlamakta gecikmedi.

Bourse (la). Thermomètre de l'opinion publique. Boursiers. Tous voleurs.

One must not touch idols; the gilt rubs off on one's hands.