Quotes about Morality
Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.
— William Faulkner
if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it...
— William Faulkner
If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date.
— William Faulkner
I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is. I have done things but neither better nor worse than them that pretend otherlike, and I know that Old Marster will care for me as for ere a sparrow that falls.
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas about honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree.
— William Faulkner
Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
— William Faulkner
The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree. "I reckon
— William Faulkner
Which explains a lot, having likewise noticed in my time that the goddess in charge of virtue seems to be the same one in charge of luck, if not of folly also.
— William Faulkner
You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!
— William Golding
I must say that anyone who passed through those years [of World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
— William Golding
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
— William James