Dante Alighieri Quotes

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.