Quotes About Morality

They must constantly negotiate among their own moral and spiritual instincts, the interests of their institutions, their personal concerns about their own salaries and retirement accounts, and professional and social status. In short, they must master the art of ethical compromise as a matter of vocational survival

do we Christians want to continue to enfranchise scoundrels who hold the right beliefs but perpetuate harm?

How one is remembered doesn't matter when one is focused on integrity.

By joining the anti-abortion movement, the once guilty are propelled from deep moral unease to a secure position of moral innocence and superiority, with the added social bonding that comes from uniting against a shared enemy whom they depict as murderous and vile. That's quite a set of perks for a very low price of membership (namely, agreeing to vote Republican in the United States—or its counterparts elsewhere).

Rand knew that people don't care if something doesn't work, as long as the dominant morality of altruism tells them that it is right.

The greatest of mankind's criminals are those who delude themselves into thinking they have done "the right thing." —RAYNA BUTLER, sermons on Salusa Secundus

Savant, doesn't it strike you as somewhat…hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves?

We can never atone for all the harm we cause in our lifetimes. We each make decisions based on personal priorities. In the process, people are invariably shunted aside. Someone suffers. —teaching of the new Philosophical Academy

The human race is bound not only by common genetics but also by universal standards of behavior. Those who do not willingly follow the guidelines of civilization can no longer be considered truly human. —Bene Gesserit axiom

Even innocents carry within them their own guilt in their own way. No one survives through life without paying in one fashion or another.

Nature commits no errors; right and wrong are human categories.

Since we are suboids, we have no participation in profits from Ixian technology. We have simple lives and few ambitions—but we do have our religion. We read the Orange Catholic Bible and know in our hearts what is right." The suboid speaker raised a massive, knuckled fist. "And we know that many of the things we've been building here on Ix are not right!

Logic and reason are deceptive. They can lead a person to lose his soul. —MANFORD TORONDO, speech on Salusa Secundus

It is not easy for some men to know they have done evil, for reasoning and honor are often clouded by pride.

If a man can accept his sin, he can live with it. If a man cannot accept personal sin, he suffers unbearable consequences. —Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text

The law is not a ball of twine, to be picked at and unraveled until there is nothing left of it.

When grace is replaced by greed, and generosity is displaced by avarice, there is no limit to the depths of evil that can result.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

even a fool with half an eye could see that you will never triumph against good if you are evil.

Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.

When you're dead set on doing the right thing, sometimes it's hard to recognize that you're doing it in the wrong way.

Marko: No matter what mistakes you've see your daddy make, violence---magical or otherwise---is never acceptable. Petrichor: Nonsense, Marko. Violence is often essential : in self-defense, the arts foreplay... Hazel: I want to four-play!

You keep using that term, 'the enemy.' But you taught me that euphemisms are only for those who feel guilt about what they are describing.