Quotes About Morality

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.

Memory is the foundation of identity. Through our sense of identity, we act. We determine our moral judgements. We rewrite our own memories, of course, all the time. We create fresh narratives to use in our survival. We agree on fresh histories enabling us to take action. It is part of what makes us such flawed creatures. Creatures of such narrative fiction creating cause and effect.

Power is neither good nor evil. It is the use one makes of it which is good or evil.

Who told you that the world was just?' Elric

I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.

Half the life of cities occurs at night,' Olive Lawrence warned us. 'There's a more uncertain morality then

As he steps back, away from her into the darkness, she cries out, "How do you live?" And our hero, played by Paul Muni, says, "I steal.

Kimse zenginler kadar kötü olamaz.

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would. Katherine cliffton The English Patient

Sartre puts it, value arises simply from our choices. What we choose, we value simply because we have chosen it (and apparently we remain scot-free at any moment to nonvalue it by simply un-choosing it). In other words, we do not choose (in his view) because we see the value of something. We see the value of something because we have chosen it.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

You can't regulate integrity

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

It is a sin to be poor.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.