Quotes About Morality

Love is no respecter of age or practicality Neither morality: unabashed She enters where she will Unheeding that her immortal fires Burn up human hearts...

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

The good have no need of an advocate.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing

and I'm thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain't bad for eleven.

how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie.

Sometimes the bad guys don't win.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

Col bastone in mano penso non mi farei più mettere sotto da nessuno. Terrei testa. Questo bastone davvero mi mette allegria. Asseconda la mia vocazione al dispotismo. Quanto mi piace, dire agli altri cosa devono fare. Ci voleva di ammalarsi, per scoprire quanto dare disposizioni sia in fondo più gratificante di una faticosa autosufficienza. Era per moralismo, prima, che m'imponevo di fare tutto da sola. Adesso, malata, posso godermi in segreto un privilegio eticamente sospetto.

There's one problem with California." I wasn't eager to listen, but the sentence had a promising beginning. "It has no understanding of evil.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist.

Ma io sono un uomo che preferisce perdere piuttosto che vincere con modi sleali e spietati. Grave colpa da parte mia, lo so! E il bello è che ho la sfacciataggine di difendere tale colpa, di considerarla quasi una virtù…

Lo sapevi, peccare non significa fare il male: non fare il bene, questo significa peccare.

But a lesser evil is still an evil. Therefore one commits an evil act, and evil, besides staining those who commit it, generates further evil. Hannah Arendt has shown how the principle of the lesser evil, for example, a temporary collaboration with a wicked regime, has ended up allowing atrocities and terror of all kinds. According to her, acceptance of a lesser evil is a dangerous compromise that slides into acceptance of all evil.

Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help their government remain the world's superpower. All the scientists who worked in and for Germany in the 1930s lived to regret that they directly helped a sociopath like Hitler harm millions of people. Let us not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

L'esthétisme poussé à sa limite tend vers une sorte de neutralisme moral, qui n'est pas loin d'un nihilisme éthique.

leur éthique personnelle, qui leur inspire la même horreur de toutes les formes de pharisaïsme, conservateur ou progressiste.

Baudelaire, ici encore, se montre beaucoup plus radical que Flaubert ; notamment à propos de George Sand : bête, lourde, bavarde, « elle a dans les idées morales la même profondeur de jugement […] que les concierges et les filles entretenues » ; « théologienne du sentiment », elle

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

A first impulse was never a crime.