Quotes About Morality

the guilty are innocent, only the innocent can commit crimes.

I could unleash violence and death on women and children in Mahec, but I could no more hit a woman than fly in the air; because I'm civilised, I suppose.

Mercy isn't fair, it means someone getting away with what he did because the Boss feels sorry for him. Justice is fair. Justice puts people in prison. Mercy lets them out again. Of course mercy isn't fair. It's breaking all the rules.

At the time, each time round, I thought I was doing the right thing – no, I was doing the right thing. At every turn, all I wanted was to be a good man, honourable, putting others ahead of myself. And this is where I've brought you all to, by doing the right thing. I guess that's the way it's got to be, with me. Everything I do turns bad on me, and I've never knowingly done anything wrong, in the small part of my life that I can remember.

You kill life and call it an act of religion. Then what is irreligion?

What are we to make of a civilization which has always regarded ethics as an essential part of human life," he asked, but "which has not been able to talk about the prospect of killing almost everybody except in prudential and game-theoretical terms?

but at times it seemed that, as Thorpe puts it, "Oppenheimer offered to weep for the world, but not help to change it.

He had come to loathe these Air Force men with their commitment to building more and more bombs for the purpose of killing more and more millions of people. To his mind, they were so dangerous, so morally obtuse, that he almost welcomed them as political enemies. A few weeks later, Finletter and his people told the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy that it was an open question "whether [Oppenheimer] was a subversive.

indifference to the sufferings one causes . . . is the terrible and permanent form of cruelty.

The guilt consciousness of the atomic bomb scientists is one of the most astounding things I have ever seen.

Scientists aren't responsible for the facts that are in nature. . . . If anyone should have a sense of sin, it's God. He put the facts there.

The reason why a bad philosophy leads to such hell is that it is what you think and want and treasure and foster in times of preparation that determine what you do in the pinch, and that it takes an error to father a sin.

Behauptet das nicht jeder von sich, der Bomben zündet und Leute umbringt? Dass es gute Gründe dafür gibt? Dass es nur die Schuldigen trifft? Was soll das überhaupt heißen, schuldig und unschuldig?

People aren't all brought up the same way, and they have different perspectives on what is right and wrong. That being the case, you can't assume anything about anyone without having some concrete basis to make a determination. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA

All I can say is...God is Great! And All Beliefs that Teach People to Be Good and Decent to Each Other. "- Strong: Philosophies by Kailin Gow

Be yourself, and do what you think is right, or all the rest of it doesn't mean much.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

You sound like a Renaissance man," I said. "I am," Derek said. "I don't care about how I'm supposed to act because I'm a guy. I do what I do because it's the right thing to do as a human, not by gender." - Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow

What's the point in weighing up consequences if it means you end up doing something you know isn't right? ", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

I don't know what that thing is, but I know you aren't it. You care too much about the world and the people in it. All that cared about was killing.", Jack Simple to Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

It means that I don't have to accept that normal people can do bad things.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

Animals have no rights

One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind?

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal. Perhaps he becomes a criminal because he has never ceased to be an animal.