Blaise Pascal Quotes

Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Evil is evil, and it doesn't discriminate by dress. Some evil people in the headlines wear designer suits and wing-tipped shoes.

Conscience is better served by a myth.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Don't be evil is a load of crap.

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.