Quotes About Morality

somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Something is either right or it's wrong," Dalinar said, feeling stubborn. "The Almighty doesn't come into it." "God," Navani said flatly, "doesn't come into whether his commands are right or wrong." "Er. Yes.

What good is seeking a greater law, when that law can be the whims of a man either stupid or ruthless?

Religion worried him. It could ask men to do things they'd otherwise never do.

Good men don't become legends.

So much evil, Nightblood said, like a woman tisking as she cleaned cobwebs from her ceiling.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, _because_ it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

That's why we get annoyed by you Idrians. So high, so certain that what you do is right. If your god asked you to give up your Breath—or even the Breath of your child—wouldn't you do it? You give up your children to become monks, forcing them into a life of servitude, don't you? That's seen as a sign of faith. Yet when we do something to serve our gods, you twist your lips at us and call us blasphemers.

People rarely want to kill, David. It's not the basic makeup of the healthy human mind. In most situations they will go to great lengths to avoid killing. Remember that, and it will help you.

If we stop helping people because we're afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I'll stop them.

Sometimes," Dalinar said, "the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

It has always seemed to me," she said, "that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.

A coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right.

Be a man and not a beast.

The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change. They are corrupt now.They were corrupt then.

Cobb," I said, stepping closer. "Those aren't bloodthirsty monsters out there; they're just people. Normal people, with lives, and loves, and families." "And what did you think we've been fighting against all these years?" Cobb asked.

After living with the enemy," I admitted, "I learned it wasn't so simple. I didn't discover that their cause was just, mind you. Only that most of them weren't evil. They were merely people. Following, by accident, someone who was evil.

You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable story-telling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions.

You can't put a price on a person's life," Kaladin

Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.

Heavens, no," Wax said. "If I approved of half the thngs Wayne does, Harmony would probably strike me on the spot.

freedom was not lack of responsibilities—it was being able to do what was right, without having to worry if it was also wrong.