Andrea Pirlo Quotes

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

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.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.