Quotes About Morality

I'm not saying there's no such thing as right or wrong. But I'm saying what may work for some doesn't work for others.

Two of our biggest delusions are that "loyalty" and "keeping promises" are admirable qualities. They are not. They are oft an excuse to do the wrong thing and to protect the wrong person because you are supposed to be "a man of your word" or have a bond with or allegiance to someone who deserves neither. Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics

He asks me about that, about how a man who could have done such evil could also be kind. I try to explain to him that human beings are more complex than we know, but of course, I don't really have an answer.

I can't believe you still do this," Myron said. "Are we moralizing again?" Win asked with a smile. "How nice for us." "Let me ask you something." "Oh, please do." "Something I always wanted to know." "My ears are all atwitter." "Putting aside my repugnancy for a moment—" "Not on my account," Win said. "I so enjoy when you're superior.

He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

we are all inescapably responsible, not only for our own actions, but for our lack of action, the morality and ethic of our silences and our avoidances, the shared guilt of hypocrisy, voyeurism, and cowardice; what might be called the "spectator-sport social conscience.

Und so sagte ich ihr, dass ich ihrem Daddy wehtun müsste, damit wir fliehen könnten, und da trat ein Ausdruck in ihre Augen, den ich gut kannte. Denn trotz ihrer Wohlanständigkeit mochte Quilla June ihren gottesfürchtigen Daddy nicht besonders gern.

In the end, I've done more good than evil. I've saved more than I've harmed. You are a sum of your life, not just one part. ~Myron Bolitar~

But I can't understand a Yahweh , or a God , who could be all-powerful and all knowing and would allow the Nazi death camps and schizophrenia .

For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.

I have received many nasty letters from neo-conservatives, who denounce me because I refuse to say that the function of studying canonical works is to reinforce our moral suppositions.

everyone deserves respect until they did something to lose it.

there's doubt in your mind, there's no doubt at all." In other words, if you know in your heart that an action is wrong, don't do it.

To him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin" ((NKJV)).

Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

I have observed that religion is not restraining in a moral see. Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

Religion is not the same as ethics. Religion in its fanatic state may be a passion devoid of morality that will take any means to an end.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

Atticus, you must be wrong. How's that? Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . . They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions, said Atticus, but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus