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Morality Quotes
"Most times, bankrupted finances is a reflection of bankrupted souls."
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"Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who's generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil."
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"I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth."
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"Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal."
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"It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse."
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"Selfishness is blind."
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"A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that men have then added their own foreign vices to the solid and simple foundation of his own private vices. It would astound him to realize that they have actually, by their strange erratic path, avoided his vices as well as his virtues."
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"What are the obvious temptations and inclinations that consistently call me or entice me to go against my personal beliefs, values and standards? You don't need a prophet for this!"
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
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"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
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"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."
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"Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how 'nice' a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions ."
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"The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity."
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"What's the point in hating something if you aren't proactive?"
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"Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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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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"Stand up for your conscience. Use light to reveal what is concealed in the darkness. Use truth to fight the lies, and the heart to fight the mind."
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"I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions."
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"The mystery of Evil and its origin & purposes."
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"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."
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"If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street."
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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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"It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding."
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"A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology."
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"The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things."
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"[H]er retaliation only made the sin the greater because she could not find words to confess."
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"Those who engage in deception generally have nothing good to offer, Satan has nothing good to offer humanity. John 8:44"
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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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"What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action."
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"A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself."
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"There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over."There is," said Father Brown dryly, "and that is the real difference between human charity and Christian charity. You must forgive me if I was not altogether crushed by your contempt for my uncharitableness today; or by the lectures you read me about pardon for every sinner. For it seems to me that you only pardon the sins that you don't really think sinful. You only forgive criminals when they commit what you don't regard as crimes, but rather as conventions. So you tolerate a conventional duel, just as you tolerate a conventional divorce. You forgive because there isn't anything to be forgiven."
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