Quotes about Virtue

I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

God, who in the beginning was the creator, appears in the end as revenger and rewarder. Deference to such a God admittedly can produce virtuous actions; however, because fear of punishment or hope for reward are their motive, these actions will not be purely moral; on the contrary, the inner essence of such virtue will amount to prudent and carefully calculating egoism.

Virtue is as little taught as is genius; indeed, the concept is just as unfruitful for it as it is for art, and in the case of both can be used only as an instrument. We should therefore be just as foolish to expect that our moral systems and ethics would create virtuous, noble, and holy men, as that our aesthetics would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality of Life.

Paray? lanetleyen insan, onu ?erefsizce elde etmi?tir; ona sayg? duyan insan, hak ederek kazanm??t?r.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.