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Morality Quotes
"Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving."
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"But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects."
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"I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me."
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"Real wealth is not the weight of coins, it is the net value of your honesty."
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"Sincerity' and 'morality', if you completely (from all angles) learn these two words then everything is completed!"
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"Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen,and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornnessbrands you for stupidity - pride is a crime."
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"Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don't entertain immorality."
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"I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal."
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"Salvation: to see each thing for what it is- its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.What else could it be but to live life fully- to pay out goodnesslike the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap."
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"As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal."
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"All humans are rogues. Cured only by death."
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"In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
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"Sirs, if you are listening and are not acting, it is like a man who is always tilling but never sowing. It is better not to listen to a truth than to listen without acting, for then it becomes a poison."
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"I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil."
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"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
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"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
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"If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not."
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"It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it."
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"Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question."
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"The bite of conscience is indecent."
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"True beauty is a warm heart, a kind soul, and an attentive ear."
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"Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des lois toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so virtuous that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the law, he would not deserve to be hanged ten times in his life.)"
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"Well, evil to some is always good to others."
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"Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species."
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"They had stolen my memories from me! Nobody had that right. Nobody! My memories belonged to me. Stealing memories was stealing time. I got so mad, I lost all fear. I didn't care what happened. I want to live! I told myself. I will live. I will get out of this insane netherworld and get back my stolen memories back and live. Forget the end of the world, I was ready to reclaim my whole self."
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"Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate."
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"Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it."
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"All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear."
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"Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extrême de tous les vices."
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