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Sometimes, for revenge to be as sweet and painful as it is intended, some time has to pass. Time enough that people have forgotten about past hurts and humiliations. Time enough to make the poison of bitterness consume a soul. It was to be that time...Two worlds collide and find a common link. A plan was made, a price was paid and revenge was set in motion.
— Elizabeth Bourgeret, Captive Heart
Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?
— Roger Ebert
Trust doesn't need any proof, its always hypothetical.
— Chandan Sharma
People hate people, not freedom.
— David Foster Wallace
You don’t have to love me
—  just don’t hate me beautiful creature!
When you take a stand against injustice inflicted upon innocent people, there will be those who will hate you for it.
— Ellen J. Barrier
All Life Is A Fucking Shit Where People Whom You Meet Make ItA Bullshit
— Nithin Kumar
Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
— Bob Edwards
A man without god is a lost man. Every man believe in something. We CANT live by ourselves thinking only in money and possesions. We HAVE to live WITH others and love each other, and NEVER hate, because when you hate someone, you destroy your soul a little bit every day, and when the last day of our live come, we dont have the energy or the strenght to forgive, and repent of our sins, and thats whats kill us FOREVER, leading us to a eternal prision inside us, called "Hell". Hope you understand my perspective of life, that I assume is right.
— M. Cesar
The greatest miracle was that in the end I could actually feel pity for those men because they were so deluded: they thought they had power and really they had nothing. I will never forget it. And from that moment on I've never really hated anymore. It all turned around when I sat there thinking what poor empty souls they were.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason.
— Thomas Sydenham, The Whole Works of That Excellent Practical Physician, Dr. Thomas Sydenham: Wherein Not Only the History and Cures of Acute Diseases Are Treated of the Ninth Edition: Corrected from the Original Latin, by John Pechey ...
Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It’s the indifference I don’t know how to process.
— Colleen Hoover, This Girl
That's the beautiful thing about innocence
—  even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.
Indifference is the worst kind of response when love is expressed. Hate is not the antithesis of love; it’s the nonexistence of feeling, a pervasive apathy. When hate is present, so is love. It’s passion gone sour and fueled by pain, but, nonetheless, it’s passion and love is apparently still alive. Yet when indifference seeps into our spirits, an emotional numbness and permitted scotoma takes the place of any passion – whether it’s love or hate – and resigns in a new state of being.
— M.B. Dallocchio
Don’t hate your enemies, they don’t even deserve it.
— M.F. Moonzajer
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
— Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
Helen hadn't realized how heavy the burden of hate had been until she was allowed to put it down.
— Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed
Tell me you're sorry.Tell me you don't hate me enough to hurt me this way.
— Chelsea Pitcher, The S-Word
It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.
— Dan Wells, Fragments
It's not that I am "above" feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred keeps a person with you, and the last thing I want with me in my thoughts is someone who doesn't deserve to be there.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I hate people in general, but you guys are cool with me.
— Edward M. Wolfe, Hell on Ice
War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
— F. Paul Wilson, Reprisal
In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the tangled web of our fate was inescapable. Why did these women love each other to the point of madness? Why did they loathe one another so vehemently, and why did sworn enemies feel such horror and fascination for one another? Why should furious hate become obsession, then intoxication and the very reason to live?Because love and hate were the two heads of the demon.
— Shan Sa, Empress
Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.
— J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon
Life is all about love. Everything — hate, lust, money, power, death, birth — it all stems from love. If life were put in a giant pot and boiled like a piece of chicken, all the fat would melt away, and what you’d be left with is love.
— J. Matthew Nespoli, Broken
J!m squinted his first hate of the day.
— Larry Doyle, Go, Mutants!
It is only by loving others that we can learn to live
—  living is rare nowadays...most people survive
Life is happy when u make it. Its boring when u hate it
— Sreeja Pai
I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.
— Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.
— Masashi Kishimoto
He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.
— Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
You traitorous bitch!" he yelled. "You goddamn liar!"I laughed. "You knew I were a bitch and a liar when you married me, Guy. It's your own damn fault for agreeing to it.
— A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet
Some of you have it ingrained in you. You weren't born with it. No baby has hate for anything. We were all babies once, right? This little guy doesn't care what country you were born in or what religion you might practice or how much you weigh or who you might love.
— A.S. King, Ask the Passengers
They say love and hate are closely tied, that they can turn at a moment’s notice.
— Laura Lam, Pantomime
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
— Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
Oh, well, she decided as her eyes began to close, it is better to love foolishly than to hate bitterly. I hope I am wiser than I was and more kind.
— Carla Kelly, Reforming Lord Ragsdale
If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.
— Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you?
— William Golding, Darkness Visible
Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.
— Lily Allen
Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it.
— D.B. Harrop
Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages fall, it is due to the capitalist. Why the capitalist is ineffective when wages rise, and the profiteer when prices fall, the man in the street does not inquire. Nor does he notice that wages and prices rise and fall together. If he is a capitalist, he wants wages to fall and prices to rise; if he is a wage earner, he wants the opposite. When a currency expert tries to explain that profiteers and trade unions and ordinary employers have very little to do with the matter, he irritates everybody, like the man who threw doubt on German atrocities. (In World War I) We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to have when we suffer. It is so depressing to think taht we suffer because we are fools; yet taking mankind in mass, that is the truth. For this reason, no political party can acquire any driving force except through hatred; it must hold someone to obloquy. If so-and-so’s wickedness is the sole cause of our misery, let us punish so-and-so and we shall be happy. The supreme example of this kind of political thought was the Treaty of Versailles. Yet most people are only seeking some new scapegoat to replace the Germans.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
I think love and hate intertwine far too much for humanity's own good, yet we choose to compare them like vinegar and water.
— Emory Sharplin, Scrap
In a world of hate, love is the revolution.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Subject to the law(s) of nature, hate is born to die
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
How would your life be different if instead of spending your energy and focus on hating those who hate you, you spent your energy and focus on loving those who love you?
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The hatred of hatred is still hate.
— Ralph Dominic Castro
He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The most diplomatic statement you can use for the person you hate:"If I would have water, and you would be on fire,...I would drink IT.
— Tuba Javed
When there is painThere is sadnessWhen there is sadness There is hatredOne who fall from this will never rise up
— Ax Vasto
You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience, whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together, corpse.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
— Lauren DeStefano, Fever
Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?""Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.
— Kimberly Montague, Racing Outside the Line
You hated what we had done, and it had meant so much to me. I hated you after that.
— S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
Love and hate are practically the same thing.
— Kristin Halbrook, Nobody But Us
Love is as hard to hide as hate.
— Jennifer Hudson Taylor, Highland Blessings
Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem witch trials, the Ku Klux Klan scapegoating of blacks. Notice, however, that in all such cases the persecutor hates the persecuted for precisely those traits that the persecutor displays with a glaringly uncivilized fury. At other times, the witch hunt appears in less terrifying proportions—the cold war fear of a "Commie under every bed," for instance. And often, it appears in comic form—the interminable gossip about everybody else that tells you much more about the gossiper than about the object of gossip. But all of these are instances of individuals desperate to prove that their own shadows belong to other people.Many men and women will launch into tirades about how disgusting homosexuals are. Despite how decent and rational they otherwise try to behave, they find themselves seized with a loathing of any homosexual, and in an emotional outrage will advocate such things as suspending gay civil rights (or worse). But why does such an individual hate homosexuals so passionately? Oddly, he doesn’t hate the homosexual because he is homosexual; he hates him because he sees in the homosexual what he secretly fears he himself might become. He is most uncomfortable with his own natural, unavoidable, but minor homosexual tendencies, and so projects them. He thus comes to hate the homosexual inclinations in other people—but only because he first hates them in himself. And so, in one form or another, the witch hunt goes. We hate people "because," we say, they are dirty, stupid, perverted, immoral.... They might be exactly what we say they are. Or they might not. That is totally irrelevent, however, because we hate them only if we ourselves unknowingly possess the despised traits ascribed to them. We hate them because they are a constant reminder of aspects of ourselves that we are loathe to admit. We are starting to see an important indicator of projection. Those items in the environment (people or things) that strongly affect us instead of just informing us are usually our own projections. Items that bother us, upset us, repulse us, or at the other extreme, attract us, compel us, obsess us—these are usually reflections of the shadow. As an old proverb has it, I looked, and looked, and this I came to see: That what I thought was you and you, Was really me and me.
— Ken Wilber, No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
I don’t think sin is as black and white as people want it to be. I think sin comes in an array of colors and one of them is so bright that it blinds us to our ability to love. And if I don’t think I can love you just because you’re gay, then Satan wins; because without Love, the only color left is Hate.
— Wade Kelly, My Roommate's a Jock? Well, Crap!
Until they feel what we feel, they will never fully understand the own hell they caused.
— Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want
— Tucker Max, Assholes Finish First
Don't worry, I can't be bothered! You're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you! You're not worth the powder it would take to blow you up. You are an empty, empty, hollow shell of a woman. I mean, what the hell are you doing in my house if you hate me so much? Why the hell are you married to me? What the hell are you doing carrying my child? I mean, why didn't you just get rid of it when you had the chance? Because listen to me, listen to me, I got news for you - I wish to God that you had!
— Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.
— Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and lesbian. In America the unholy alliance between the know-nothing fundamentalists and the Catholic hierarchy keeps the faithful whipped up to a frenzy of witch-hunting and fag-bashing.
— Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Once you kill all of us, and you're alone, you'll die! The hate will die. That hate is what moves you, nothing else! That envy moves you. Nothing else! You'll die, inevitably. You're not immortal. You're not even alive, you're nothing but moving hate.
— Ray Bradbury, A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.
— Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman
When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard myself say, "I don't hate you."She called me an effing liar and said, "Hate makes the world go around. Envy, lust and hate.""I stopped hating anyone the day when I realized hating can't restore to me anything that's lost.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
His fingers gouged into my leg harder. "My sister was in that cafeteria," he said. "She saw her friends die, thanks to you and that puke boyfriend of yours. She still has nightmares about it. He got what he deserved, but you got a free pass. That ain't right. You should've died that day, Sister Death. Everyone wishes you would have. Look around. Where is Jessica, if she wants you here so bad? Even the friends you came here with don't want to be with you.""Let go of me," I said again, pulling on his fingers. But he only pinched tighter."Your boyfriend isn't the only one who can get his hands on a gun," he said. Slowly he eased himself up to standing again. He reached into the waistband of his jeans and pulled out something small and dark. He pointed it at me, and when the moonlight hit it, I gasped and pressed myself against the barn wall.
— Jennifer Brown, Hate List
There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.
— Jessica Fortunato, The Sin Collector: Thomas
She had said: 'You could not hate anyone that much -' She was mistaken. What did she know? She felt so good right now, this must be hate, what else could it be?("Mind Over Murder")
— Cornell Woolrich, Angels of Darkness
I hate pulling out... I mean, I'm really bad at the whole parking thing....
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.
— Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.
— Alice Sebold, Lucky
I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward,diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an hour.“No you dooonnn’t!” Fang’s voice spiraled away into nothingness, far aboveme.Inside my head, almost drowned out by the roar of wind rushing by my ears, Iheard the Voice make a tsking sound. You guys are crazy about each other, itsaid.
— James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation.
— Leila Meacham, Tumbleweeds
So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we gods feel. Gods have no words for such things. But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always love left, underneath. Horrible, isn't it?
— N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.
— Catherine Fisher, Corbenic
Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.
— Tinnekke Bebout
Last period of the day was new gym class. It was her only class that didn't include Evan, which was a relief. She should be functioning at a peak concentration, but he and his luminous eyes kept distracting her. First opprtunity I have, she thought. I'll bite him.
— Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love
Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.
— Sinead O'Connor
I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly."I love you," the voice whispered back.
— Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater
My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die.
— Tommy Tran
There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
— Anthony Trollope
I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said."Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for your own sake, not his. Hatred binds a man to what he hates, and I think me you need to be free of him.
— Katharine Kerr, The Spirit Stone (The Silver Wyrm, #2)
A sight to touch e’en hatred’s self with pity.
— Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
We become our decisions over time. We choose to love, or we can choose to hate. We can choose to forgive, or we can choose to take revenge; to have hope, or we can choose to fall into despair. But, regardless, we become our choices we make over time." p. 318
— David LeRoy, The Siren of Paris
All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.
— Colum McCann, Fishing the Sloe-Black River
Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
— Faye Weldon
I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too.
— Michelle Rowen, Dark Kiss
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
— Bret Easton Ellis
If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?
— David Wong
One hates a person for the same reason one loves him 
— Russell Banks
If you love somebody set them free- it also works equally well if you hate somebody
— Josh Stern
Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.
— Jennifer Brown, Hate List
All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.
— Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
— William Shakespeare, Sonnets
The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The same sun shines upon mud that shines upon wax. It hardens the mud but softens the wax. The difference is not in the sun, but in that upon which it shines. The Divine Life which shines upon a soul that loves Him, softens it into everlasting life; that same Divine Life which shines upon the slothful soul, neglectful of God, hardens it into everlasting death.
— Fulton J. Sheen, The Seven Capital Sins
Hate will only eat the truth, then spit out a lie.
— Anthony Liccione
If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.
— Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain
Hate and love were both conceived in fear, perhaps that was why they were nearly the same thing, but only one was steeped in hope.
— D. Morgenstern
Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true love, only sadism. They ALL need some good pharma.
— Elizabeth Lucye Robillard
Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi, If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...
world is small to hate but very big to love
— shivank sagar
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
— Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
— Dante Alighieri
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
— H.G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
— Mae West
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
— Oprah Winfrey
So far, about 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 Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
Right is right even if no one is doing it
—  wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
— Immanuel Kant
Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?
— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
— Leo Tolstoy
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Respect for ourselves guides our morals
—  respect for others guides our manners
I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
— Stephen King, The Stand
Conventionality is not morality.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another
—  and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
— Marcus Aurelius
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
— Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.
— Warren Buffett
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
— Malcolm Forbes
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
— Oscar Wilde
If you can't do something smart, do something right.
— Joss Whedon, Serenity
Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
— Aristotle
As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
— Rowan Atkinson
Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.
— S.C. Stephens, Effortless
I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
— Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons
— Milton Friedman
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?
— k.d. lang
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
— Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
— Robert Musil
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:The horror! The horror!
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
What is morality, she asked.Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price. 
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.
— Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
— Sigmund Freud
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm somebody's health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on the smoking minority. Because, first of all, in a democracy, minorities do have rights. And, second, the whole pitch about smoking has gone from being a health issue to a moral issue, and when they reduce something to a moral issue, it has no place in any kind of legislation, as far as I'm concerned.
— Frank Zappa
I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.
— Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.
— C.S. Lewis
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.
— Émile Durkheim
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
— John Stuart Mill, An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings
Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.
— Robert Fanney
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
— Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess: The Mother of Modern Witchcraft
Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price
— Winston S. Churchill
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
— Patrick Henry
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
— George Bernard Shaw
She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.
— Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
— Alexander Pushkin, Tales of Belkin
There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
— Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.
— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.
— Jonathan Sacks
I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.
— Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.
— Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
— Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state.""Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop into bed together and cosy up. Good thing. If we think fucking is a sign of moral decay then we're a little bit stupid-stupid, aren't we?
— Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decided to watch TV instead of thinking when they were in high school. They decided to blow-off courses and drink beer instead of reading and trying to learn something. They decided to chicken out and be intolerant bastards instead of being openminded, and finally they decided to go along with their buddies and do things that were terribly wrong when there was no reason they had to. Anyone who hurts someone else decides to hurt them, goes out of their way to do it. . . . The fact that it's hard to be a good person doesn't excuse going along and being an asshole. If they can't overcome their own fear of being unusual, it's not my fault, because any idiot ought to be able to see that if he just acts reasonably and makes a point of not hurting others, he'll be happier.
— Neal Stephenson, The Big U
As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
— David Eddings, Queen of Sorcery
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
— Thomas Szasz
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Why does IPCA use them if they’re evil?” he asked, confused.“They aren’t evil. They aren’t even really immoral, per se. They’re amoral. They don’t operate on the same level that we do. For a faerie, the only thing that matters is what they want. That’s their good. Anything else is superfluous. So like how they kidnap people, not a big deal—they want the person, they take him. Or killing someone. If you live forever, how much does one mortal life matter in the scheme of things? When you exist outside time, cutting off the forty years a person has left is a non-issue. They don’t even notice.
— Kiersten White, Paranormalcy
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
— Thornton Wilder
Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book “Moral Mazes” by Robert Jackall which is a study of how corporations work, and it’s actually a fascinating book, this sociologist, he just picks a corporation at random and just goes and studies the middle managers, not the people who do any of the grunt work and not the big decision makers, just the people whose job is to make sure that things day to day get done, and he shows how even though they’re all perfectly reasonable people, perfectly nice people you’d be happy to meet any of them, all the things that they were accomplishing were just incredibly evil. So you have these people in this average corporation, they were making decisions to blow out their worker’s eardrums in the factory, to poison the lakes and the lagoons nearby, to make these products that are filled with toxic chemicals that poisoned their customers, not because any of them were bad people and wanted to kill their workers and their neighbourhood and their customers, but just because that was the logic of the situation they were in.Another book I read was a book “Understanding Power” by Noam Chomsky which kind of took the same sort of analysis but applied it to wider society which you know we’re in a situation where it may be filled with perfectly good people but they’re in these structures that cause them to continually do evil, to invade countries, to bomb people, to take money from poor people and give it to rich people, to do all these things that are wrong. These books really opened my eyes about just how bad the society we were living in really is.
— Aaron Swartz
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
— H. Rider Haggard, She
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
— Václav Havel
So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. The dragons are dangerous, yes. They can do harm, yes. But they're not evil. They're beneath our morality, if you will, like any animal. Or beyond it. They have nothing to do with it. We must choose and choose again. The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom...
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind
If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot the unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it. It is imperative to review the table of widespread human values. Its present incorrectness is astounding. It is not possible that assessment of the President's performance be reduced to the question of how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
— Iain Banks, Complicity
Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.
— Cassandra Clare
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
— Theodore Parker, The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.
— Fulton J. Sheen
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
— Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne
— Andrew Vachss, Batman: The Ultimate Evil
The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong.
— Ovadya ben Malka, A Damaged Mirror
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
— Gore Vidal, Burr
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. 
— Rémy de Gourmont
The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.
— Confucius