What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,deserves to be whipped.

… if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us. Those who do not rise to the minimal moral level of...

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

If the story-tellers could ha’ got decency and good morals from true stories, who’d have troubled to invent parables?

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic...

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it’s a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there’s no decent argument left in the armoury.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone – as opposed to an ethical one – you know something is wrong.

The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who’s not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he’s a criminal, in a green costume he’s a hero who gets a parade and a...

Thomas More: Will, I’d trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and...

The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn’t take notice.

Montaigne said long ago: “Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most...

After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from the company and retired to the library. Mr. Hargrave followed me thither, under...

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but nevertheless the very dregs of human civilisation and moral standards. A...

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

Don’t you think it’s good to serve your country?’ I asked. ‘No, I don’t,’ Mr Peterson said. ‘I think it’s good to serve your principles. And in the army you don’t get to pick and...

The end must justify the means.

Sometimes evil didn’t need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.

One problem with today’s culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I’m willing to myself.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it...

Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world...

Morala constituie pentru arta o primejdie pe care multi o subestimeaza, arta se apropie mai mult de natura, prin cruzimea ei infantila, decat morala, care e creatia spiritului uman matur, impins de nevoia de a...

The Prince, XVIII, 5

The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them, few would be safe from molestation. The Golden Rule shows anything but moral genius, and the claim...

But you’re an artist. You don’t believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase “the good old days” has...

Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to...

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

I won’t sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That’s that.

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

Greaser ‘ didn’t have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn’t have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn’t have. It’s the individual.

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he’s learning to act like a human.”I’m sure I can learn to walk faster than that,” he said desperately.”But you’ll also...

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been...

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...

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them...

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn’t admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!