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Morality Quotes
"Evil never dies. It just changes faces."
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"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."
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"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
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"The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all."
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"Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?"
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"I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles..."
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"There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules."
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"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."
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"Fear nothing but your conscience."
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"It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times."
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"The targets of this story are not 'wayward sinners' but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them."
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"There are always consequences to wrong choices."
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"Not To Attempt To Control Sinful Behavior Is To Attempt Godly Principles."
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"But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern."
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"Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic."
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"The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction."
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"If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together."
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"I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal."
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"He pointed to the money, and said:"The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic."
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"Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive."
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"He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all."
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"Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another."
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"Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he."
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"A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they " all of them " had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man."
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"No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior, by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol-cross or crescent or whatever-that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. Its various allegories are the charts against which he measures himself and learns to know what he is. It cannot teach man to be good as the textbook teaches him mathematics. It shows him how to discover himself, evolve for himself a moral code and standard within his capacities and aspirations, by giving him a matchless example of suffering and sacrifice and the promise of hope."
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