Quotes About Morality

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

You mean that it's not only what he does that makes him dangerous, but also what he feels justified in doing?

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue.

The ability to reason is what gives us our capacity to have empathy for others, to value life itself. Our ability to judge right from wrong, to value all life, is only possible through our ability to reason. Reason is what powers morality.

She had never asked why it was right for her to be a slave to another's desires, but not evil for them to enslave her. She was not contributing to the betterment of mankind, but was merely a servant to countless puling little tyrants. Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters.

We teach our children to help those in need because one day we might be the ones in need, and we can only hope to earn such help if we are worthy, if we are the kind who would give it and not just receive it. We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.

An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don't punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Even a good person can be swept up with the sentiments of a crowd and come to hold perverse beliefs.

Willfully turing aside from the truth is treason to one's self

But you know how Richard feels. He thinks it would be wrong—more than that, he thinks it would be irresponsible to give in to such a wish when reason tells him he must not.

there is no devil, jack said. we are the devil. the devil is us.

The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.

Moral compromise rejects the concept of right and wrong. It says that everyone is equal, all desires are equally valid, all action is equally valid, so everyone should compromise to get along.

Killing is a terrible thing, too. I hate killing. But killing isn't necessarily wrong.

Avoir de la compassion pour les coupables revient à trahir les innocents.

People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life.