Quotes About Morality

Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.

Being drunk in public was inexcusable for a woman. One annual report of the Board of Police Justices bluntly stated that "public exhibitions of drunkenness in females indicate a depraved and abandoned condition," while men were sometimes let off the hook because in their case there were often "circumstances to be taken in mitigation of punishment which rarely exist in cases of females.

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

Good" and "Bad" may be alien concepts to him, Ben.

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.

Sumienie mia? czyste. Nieu?ywane.

For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created ... intentionally.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Get out of the way of justice. She is blind.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

La voz de la conciencia también pasa por un cambio de voz

Callin something a 'moral panic' does not imply that this something does not exist or happened at all and that reaction is based on fantasy, hysteria, delusion and illusion or being duped by the powerful.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

Subjective feelings are largely irrelevant to the moral issue at hand so long as they are not transformed into action.

Toward some few others who habitually became drunk or who couldn't control their drinking, most people adopted an attitude between knowing condescension and outright scorn: why were these people so weak or immoral as not to know when enough was enough?

The claim 'I was only following orders' has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history.

Helping the terminally ill to consciously end their lives is a crime, while denying health care to the living is seen as sound fiscal practice.

Revenge is nothing but the dark side of the sense of fairness.

Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.

We behave morally when we improve the lives of all we can affect.