Quotes About Morality

Doing the right thing even if there's nothing in it for you is the difference between civilisation and the cesspit we're in today.

Law is just religion for atheists, dear. It's equally shot full of contradictory nonsense.

Two wrongs—not equal to or more than a right (...) Good luck with quantifying a unit of right or wrong.

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

Beware the high cost of low living.

Remember—the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Anything's legal if you can get away with it." Maggie slammed the locker closed. "Welcome to the Atlanta Police Department.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.' " "The Golden Rule," Charlie said. "Do unto others as they do unto you.

Will hated those cops, had worked more than a few cases where he'd gotten them kicked off the force. You couldn't say you were one of the good guys if you did the same thing the bad guys did.

it was better to be guilty and rich than innocent and poor.

There were good guys and bad guys, and to protect one, you did what you had to do to the other.

Evil people can do good. Good people can do evil. Why does this happen sometimes? Because it's Tuesday.

Morální a metafyzickou vinu nesou za rodi?e jejich dÄ›ti a dÄ›ti dÄ›tí; taková vina se nesmaže, ale m?že být jen pÃ…â"¢iznána a - pokud to je možné - od?inÄ›na.

Je tÃ…â"¢eba rozliÅ¡ovat dvojí: vÄ›domí viny a uznání nÄ›jaké instituce na svÄ›tÄ› jako soudce.

Just as in reality all differences become merged more and more in the difference between poor and rich , so all aristocratic differences become dissolved in the idea in the opposition between good and evil .

Undoubtedly," it will be said, "religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.

There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

Kloe i Baltasar su imali svoj sopstsveni kodeks casti: likvidirali su samo sljam i cistili svijet od ubica, gmazova, licemerja, fanatika, smrknutih dogmata i svakojakih kretena koji jos vise upropascuavaju svijet u ime zastave, bogova, jezika, rasa ili bilo kakvog drugog djubreta kojim mogu da prekriju svoju pohlepu i svoju bedu. Za mene su oni bili krivovjerni heroji, kao sto svi stvari heroji i jesu.

Ta?u, ja atmetam dzeju, reli?ija ir mor?lais kodekss, kas tiek izpausts caur le?end?m, m?tiem un vis?da veida liter?riem sacer?jumiem ar m?r?i izveidot tic?jumu, v?rt?bu un normu sist?mu,ar kuras pal?dz?bu regul?t k?du kult?ru vai sabiedr?bu.

If some act is wrong it is simply wrong, no matter who tells you to do it or for what grand motive. It seemed to me that a true patriot and decent human being rejects doing wrong and puts the ideals on which the country is founded ahead of the directives of government bureaucrats. If the government is off the rails, you don't keep on riding the train to destruction—you certainly don't push it there on your own; you start hauling the other way as hard as you can.

It was funny how so many men were defined by their downfall. Caesar, Fred Goodwin, Trotsky, Harvey Weinstein, Hitler, Jimmy Savile. Women hardly ever. They didn't fall down. They stood up.

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

Ursula found it very odd to think that up above them there were German bombers being flown by men who, essentially, were just like Teddy. They weren't evil, they were just doing what had been asked of them by their country. It was war itself that was evil, not men. Although she would make an exception for Hitler.

You couldn't necessarily judge a woman by the man she slept with. (Or could you?)