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Morality Quotes
"Kindness is gracious demonstrate sensitivity and human warmth."
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"You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness."
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"I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it."
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"Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all."
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"Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves."
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"The right thing to do is doing whatever you think is the right. Because everything you do, people will not consider them right unless it is according to their benefits. So the right thing for you is to decide doing things they are right, whether they are told to be right, or not right."
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"A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit."
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"Real wealth is not the weight of coins, it is the net value of your honesty."
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"If I had one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence...the more I am convinced of the reality of the old religious thesis, that all evil began with some attempt at superiority; some moment when, as we might say, the very skies were cracked across like a mirror, because there was a sneer in Heaven."
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"And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that, and it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once. And in very truth, so soon as men understand that, the Kingdom of Heaven will be for them not a dream, but a living reality."
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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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"The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated."
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"What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right."
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"First live to be 'sincere' then 'morality' will follow."
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"We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters."
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"I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid."
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"Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk."
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"If you sought to leave the world, don't go alone. Since there are too many bad people you can take them too."
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"No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition."
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"You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing, my conscience."
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"Sometimes, some people wonder why they have too many enemies, but when you look closely at the way that they treat others, you would clearly see the main reason behind it. Have respect for yourself and others, and you wouldn't have to worry about having a million enemies."
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"As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. Every deed done out of anger or spite, for instance, will be found at last to have been done for the enemy and against the kingdom of God."
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"Never try to lock the virtue's door with the key of viceIt may lock forever, never to be opened again."
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"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
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"Look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and for all whom one is going to like and dislike, to stick to the people one likes, and, to make up for the time one has wasted with the others, never to leave them again as long as one lives."
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"We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have to be brought into line by the threat of hell or the promise of paradise; we merely have to be reminded that it is we ourselves -- that is, the most mature and reasonable parts of us (seldom present in the midst of our crises and obsessions) -- who want to lead the sort of life which we once imagined supernatural beings demanded of us. An adequate evolution of morality from superstition to reason should mean recognizing ourselves as the authors of our own moral commandments."
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"When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time."
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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear the hat. Would you wear someone else's Medal of Honor? Yes, it's a tribute, and sincere tribute is always appropriate for these brave people. But wearing their symbols is also rubbing off a piece of heroism that isn't yours."
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"Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price."
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