“Is it unnatural that I should have absorbed these things and have become what I am today, a treacherous, degenerate, brutal, human savage, devoid of all decent feeling, without conscience, morals, pity, sympathy, principle or any single good trait? Why am I what I am?”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“The father and mother themselves talk before the children in the most disparaging way about the teacher and the school and they are much more inclined to insult the teachers than to put their offspring across the knee and knock sound reason into him. What the little fellow hears at home does not ten…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“I understand your anger and I know you think I'm some kind of devil. For years, I sat back and watched everything I love about this country slowly unravel: faith, values, morals, decency. It culminated two years ago when my wife was killed in a drive-by. Her blood got me off the sidelines and into t…”— Dave Erickson, Ethan Zobelle, Adam Arkin, imdb.com
“I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“In ethics the Taoist railed at the laws and the moral codes of society, for to them right and wrong were but relative terms.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“A sexy woman has values, and she sticks to them. She doesn’t let anyone get in the way of her morals. Whether it’s views on religious beliefs, political beliefs, sexuality, friendship, and romance, she has clear-cut standards and doesn’t let anyone stand in front of them.”— Chelsea Hetzel, inspirationindulgence.com
“You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“You’re going to betray your convictions. You’re going to feel shame. You’re going to continue to put yourself in situations that aren’t good for you. And then, slowly but surely, it will become less frequent. It might not ever go away completely but it won’t be as bad. In the meantime, stop shame sp…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”— Pearl S. Buck, en.wikiquote.org
“If you admire everything the man stands for—how he treats people, how he views the world—he's The One.”— Ali Wentworth, glamour.com
“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”— Mark Twain, amazon.com