Quotes About Morality

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality.

Nigdy nie w?tp w cz?eka prawego i szlachetnego. Taki zawsze co? spieprzy. Oczywi?cie wszystko w imi? wi?kszego dobra.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that?

Those who can make you believe absurdities,' said Voltaire, 'can make you commit atrocities.' By contrast, my caution cannot do any such thing.

Broadminded though we take ourselves to be, lust gets a bad press. It is the fly in the ointment, the black sheep of the family, the ill- bred, trashy cousin of upstanding members like love and friendship.

La gente no nace buena o mala. Quizá nace con tendencias hacia un lado u otro, pero es el modo en que vives tu vida lo que importa. Y la gente a la que conoces.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals? Insight. Honor. Morality. Perspective. Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.

Be good, my dears, and if you can't be good don't do it in front of witnesses!

And we all have the right to go to Hell in our own way.

Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that's how we always reward the best of us.

When all else fails, you can always damn yourself with a necessary evil, for the greater good.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Be angry only for a grave cause that rightly calls for indignation,' Maimonides wrote in his Mishneh Torah. What

Edith Wharton with the death penalty

that, she thought, was the quiet crime of these times: if you made your conscience elastic enough, you could learn to tolerate anything and still find joy in the blossoming of flowers.

This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked. Redeeming social value, indeed.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

People might deserve a derogatory epithet, but it showed the mudslinger in just as bad a light.

Society was supposed to be better than its criminals, never stooping to their level of depravity.

These worthy schoolteachers were not overburdened with diplomas, but as far as devotion and morality were concerned, they were second to none; they wore plum-colored silk blouses that caressed my cheeks when they pressed me to their bosoms.

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

A veces hay que alejarse de la multitud para ser una mejor persona. No siempre es fácil, eso es seguro. Pero es correcto. Y a veces hacer lo correcto se siente muy bien.