Was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
Referring to the French Revolution:
The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that.
An evil gain equals a loss.
Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
Integrity is never painless.
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.
A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
Follow the money at all costs, and you might wind up regretting it.
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
It Is Not Linen You're Wearing Out But Human Creatures' Lives.
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
No more free steps to heaven.
If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?
We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.
A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
