417 quotes found
“Sincerity and morality is the basement of this world.”
“First live to be sincere then morality will follow.”
“Rich or poor, living in a trusting society simply makes people happier.”
“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.”
“When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles w...”
“She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.”
“Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!”
“Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.”
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
“Conventionality is not morality.”
“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”
“If you can't do something smart, do something right.”
“Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.”
“He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.”
“Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and Im not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.”
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woo...”
“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
“What is morality, she asked.Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any pr...”
“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.”
“Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”
