Quotes about Morality
It is not hatred that is wrong; it is hating the wrong thing that is wrong. It is not anger that is wrong; it is being angry at the wrong thing that is wrong. Tell me your enemy, and I will tell you what you are. Tell me your hatred, and I will tell you your character.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)
— Victor Hugo
Morality is truth in full bloom.
— Victor Hugo
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
— Victor Hugo
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
— Victor Hugo
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
— Victor Hugo
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
— Victor Hugo
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
— Victor Hugo
When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!
— Victor Hugo
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
— Victor Hugo
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
— Victor Hugo