Quotes About Morality

Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?" I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring, real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. "Imaginative literature," therefore, is either boring or immoral or a mixture of both.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Il principale fondamento della moralità dell'individuo e di un popolo e la stima costante e profonda che esso ha di sé e la cura che ha a conservarsela, la sensibilità sul proprio onore. Un uomo senza amor proprio non può essere giusto, onesto e virtuoso.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason

Hypocrisy wears hard on a man who at heart isn't that way.

Doing the right thing is actually the right thing to do.

Do what's right while the sun still shines.

Mixture of lie doeth ever add pleasure.

Lie faces God and shrikns from men

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. (c. 1625)

It's ill-luck to serve a bad man,

Ah! how true it was that conscience was a thousand swords.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

One of the few lessons I have learnt from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that we are all capable of doing almost anything.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

think I none so simple would say that Aesop lied in the tales of his beasts: for who thinks that Aesop writ it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances, but by the character of their lives and conversations. ?Tis better that a man?s own works than another man?s words should praise him.