Moral Quotes

“The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
― Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I

“Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?”
― Mira Grant, Feed

“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.

The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.

The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.

The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.

The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.

The moral of the story?

Kids are smart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my dependency on nature; I openly confess that the workings of nature affect not only my surface, my skin, my body, but also my core, my innermost being, that the air I breathe in bright weather has a salutary effect not only on my lungs but also on my mind, that the light of the sun illumines not only my eyes but also my spirit and my heart. And I do not, like a Christian, believe that such dependency is contrary to my true being or hope to be delivered from it. I know further that I am a finite moral being, that I shall one day cease to be. But I find this very natural and am therefore perfectly reconciled to the thought.”
― Ludwig Feuerbach, Lectures on the Essence of Religion

“A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.”
― Oakley Hall, Warlock

“When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.”
― Ayn Rand

“sebuah tawa : suatu tanda kebebasan, suatu petunjuk kembalinya sifat human.”
― Goenawan Mohamad, CATATAN PINGGIR 2

“All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“Kalau kau bisa membeli kekaguman seseorang dengan uang, kekuasaan, atau logika, maka lintah darat, polisi, dan profesor universitas akan memiliki lebih banyak pengagum daripada siapa pun.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced”
― Henry A. Giroux, Teachers as Intellectuals: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning

“Kemurnian barangkali memang tak ditakdirkan untuk dunia yang tak kekal, tak tunggal, ini.”
― Goenawan Mohamad, CATATAN PINGGIR 2

“The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man.”
― James Thurber, Further Fables for Our Time

“Só num mundo de cegos as coisas serão o que verdadeiramente são.”
― José Saramago

“Ketika manusia bebas memutuskan untuk menghormatimu, hadiah yang kaumiliki lebih mahal nilainya daripada apapun.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

“A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“You are a cesspit if moral filth.”
― Phillip Pullman

“The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you can’t find it in Jesus, then you really ought to think twice before you claim you’ve found it in God.”
― Austin Fischer, Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey in and Out of Calvinism

“People always live badly today; they only live well tomorrow. For the sake of ambition they strive against each other with evil deeds, but the path to glory would be easier to tread by doing good to one another. Although they always speak evil, they hope to be well spoken of themselves; although they do evil, they hope to receive good. We proclaim that we are the authors of good, but that God is the author of evil.”
― Marsilio Ficino

“You'll never know what hit you, son.”
― Norman Mohamad

“you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I mean if those moral principles are out there and God is just telling us what it is, then why do we need the middleman? Just tell us the reasons why it’s wrong and okay. And if it’s just because God said it what if he didn’t say murder was wrong, would that make it right? No, it would still be wrong.”
― Michael Shermer

“<negar nuestro consentimiento>>

"Pero Steinlauf me hace callar. Ha terminado de lavarse, ahora se está secando con la chaqueta de tela que antes tenía enroscada entre las piernas y que luego va a ponerse, y sin interrumpir la operación me da una lección en toda regla.

He olvidado hoy, y lo siento, sus palabras directas y claras, las palabras del que fue el sargento Steinlauf del Ejército austro-húngaro, cruz de hierro en la guerra de 1914-1918. Lo siento porque tendré que traducir su italiano inseguro y su razonamiento sencillo de buen soldado a mi lenguaje de incrédulo. Pero éste era el sentido, que no he olvidado
después ni olvidé entonces: que precisamente porque el <> es una gran máquina para convertirnos en animales, nosotros no debemos convertirnos en animales; que aun en este sitio se puede sobrevivir, y por ello se debe querer sobrevivir, para contarlo, para dar testimonio; y que para vivir es importante esforzarse por salvar al menos el esqueleto, la armazón, la forma de la civilización. Que somos esclavos, sin ningún derecho, expuestos a cualquier ataque, abocados a una muerte segura, pero que nos ha quedado una facultad y debemos defenderla con todo nuestro vigor porque es la última: la facultad de
negar nuestro consentimiento. Debemos, por consiguiente, lavarnos la cara sin jabón, en
el agua sucia, y secarnos con la chaqueta. Debemos dar betún a los zapatos no porque lo diga el reglamento sino por dignidad y por limpieza. Debemos andar derechos, sin arrastrar los zuecos, no ya en acatamiento de la disciplina prusiana sino para seguir
vivos, para no empezar a morir.

Estas cosas me dijo Steinlauf, hombre de buena voluntad: cosas extrañas para mi oído desacostumbrado, entendidas y aceptadas sólo en parte, y mitigadas por una doctrina más fácil, dúctil y blanda, la que hace siglos que se respira más acá de los Alpes y según la cual, entre otras cosas, no hay vanidad mayor que esforzarse en tragarse enteros los sistemas morales elaborados por los demás, bajo otros cielos. No, la prudencia y la virtud de Steinlauf, ciertam ente buenas para él, no me bastan. Frente a
este complicado mundo inferior mis ideas es tán confusas: ¿será realmente necesario establecer un sistema y practicarlo? ¿No será más saludable tomar conciencia de no tener sistema?”
― Primo Levi, Trilogía de Auschwitz: Si esto es un hombre / La tregua / Los hundidos y los salvados