Quotes About Morality

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will, she'd said. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other?

People today Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice. They act as their surroundings prepare them to act.

It is a great irony that society tends to look down on those who sell their bodies, but not on those who lease out their minds.

The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right. That was my mistake. Before any of this can work, our people need to have a minimum level of honor and dignity.

A good man, I don´t think I´ve ever known one of those before

Debe alguien, un ser invisible, declarar qué es el bien para que sea bueno? Yo creo que mi propia moralidad, que responde solo ante mi corazón, es más segura y veraz que la moralidad de aquellos que hacen el bien solo porque temen el castigo. —Pero

We're going to kill them, aren't we?" William Ann asked. "Yes." "How much are they worth?" "Sometimes, child, it's not about what a man is worth.

Everyone who is your enemy must also be an evil person?

no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

it was beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

But it's not a matter of morality, is it? It's a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you'd accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job.

My father used to say that there are two kinds of people in the world," Kaladin whispered, voice raspy. "He said there are those who take lives. And there are those who save lives.

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We

If Taravangian killed a child, he'd do it not for vengeance. Not for fury. Not for wealth or renown. But because he sincerely thought the child's death was necessary. He would call it good, then? No. He would acknowledge it as evil, would say it stains his soul. He says... that's the point of having a monarch. A man to wallow in blood, to be stained by it and destroyed by it, so that others might not suffer.

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

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Guilt=I did something bad. Shame=I am bad.

Taking pleasure in someone else's failings, even if that person is someone we really dislike, can violate our values and lead to feelings of guilt and shame. But, make no mistake, it's seductive, especially when we're sucked into groupthink.

And in case I'm feeling more ornery than usual, I have a little Post-it Note under my tightrope picture that reads, "Cruelty is cheap, easy, and chickenshit." That's also a touchstone of my spiritual beliefs.

Shame is not a compass for moral behavior. It's much more likely to drive destructive, hurtful, immoral, and self-aggrandizing behavior than it is to heal it. Why? Because where shame exists, empathy is almost always absent. That's what makes shame dangerous. The opposite of experiencing shame is experiencing empathy. The behavior that many of us find so egregious today is more about people being empathyless, not shameless.