Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma GandhiGod is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheI think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
Joel OsteenAnd whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin FranklinMoney ain’t everything.
Dolly PartonOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George OrwellThere is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.
Kevin HartIt’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
Gordon RamsayInjustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
PlatoI definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
George BestI just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.
J. ColeI mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.
Barack ObamaIn the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich NietzscheJustice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.
HeraclitusForgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Joyce MeyerSome like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul AusterI know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest HemingwayRevenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis BaconAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel KantHow could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao TzuHollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn MonroeAbout morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest HemingwayThat old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
James MadisonI believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.
Joel OsteenNo man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore RooseveltTruth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas JeffersonThe ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
Andrew CarnegieWhen the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim CarreyReverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert SchweitzerIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireEvil is whatever distracts.
Franz KafkaIt’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen KingAfter the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Henry David ThoreauThe whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas JeffersonI have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham LincolnThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaCharity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar WildeIt is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry FordOf course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.
Paulo CoelhoI will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.
Clint EastwoodKnowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PlatoMoney and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will RogersThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesTo say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
Pope FrancisThose have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin FranklinThe thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘
Billy GrahamVirtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard ShawNothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia WoolfA system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
SocratesWar is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George OrwellHonor is the reward of virtue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert CamusTo see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
ConfuciusHe who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
PlatoWhat do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
Jean-Paul SartreArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore RooseveltSin is geographical.
Bertrand Russell