Quotes About Morality

I'm not good. I don't know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody's good.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Some woman just said she wishes she could kiss the guy that killed Hitler and I don't know if I should ruin that for her.

The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool.

Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn't have anything to do with what kind of human being you are.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonour, nor violence indicate possession.

La moral es una autoridad superior al derecho.

Do the gods choose what is good because it is good, or is the good good because the gods choose it? If the first option is true, then the good is independent of the gods. But if the second option is true, then the very idea of what is good becomes arbitrary.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

Is it how we feel or how we think that is more important in determining whether we are morally good human beings?

Even if God were inclined to dole out post-mortem punishment it is more likely to be for the wicked than for the sceptical.

If we live with a good heart, good speech, and good action life will be good.

Good and evil, which were once as distinguishable as day and night, have become a blurred mist. But that mist is man-made. God is not silent. He has been silenced.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the Iliad . Good and evil do not exist.

as a boy when his mother told him to listen to the voice inside him to help him tell the difference between right and wrong, nothing happened. He concluded that "either I was too wicked to have a conscience or too good to need one".

We only live once and every day spent living your principles is a day at liberty. It is clear that history is on our side.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

I know guys aren't supposed to cry, but I cried a bunch that night. And I guess that's when I decided being good at something didn't mean you had to do it. Just 'cause something's easy doesn't make it right.

She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

l'uomo, allo stato di natura, nasce virtuoso; il vizio deriva dalla vita nella società mondane, esposta alle artefatte pressioni urbane.

For the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the suspension of their own mores when they came in contact with the Indian nations was quite the opposite of battle, bringing not horrors, but the guiltless pleasure of a liaison unlike any in the United States- unlike any, because it didn't have to be arranged, induced, concealed, limited, remunerated, or sanctified.

Strange, Andras thought, that war could lead you to involuntarily forgive a person who didn't deserve forgiveness, just as it might make you kill a man you didn't hate.