Quotes About Morality

Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber?

Did she actually kill Alina? With her hands? A weapon?" "Why do you ask?" "Everything has degrees." "You think some ways of killing are better?" "I know they are." "Death is death!" "Agreed. But killing is not always murder.

Perhaps, Ms. Lane, you and I are fighting different wars." If he thought becoming evil was a solution, not a problem, he was right, we were.

I don't reply. Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.

Why does the choice between good and evil have to involve personal comfort?

Love the people who treat you right pray or the people who don't

There's rights, and there's right.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

Why did criminals have so many rights? Why were they entitled to respect and understanding? Had they not acted so unlawfully that these rights should be stripped from them?

How can you know you're a good person if your life has been nothing but plain sailing?

Society has made it so I have to get paid in order to do basic things like eat and be indoors and not be naked. Once that's happened, morality's bound to get slippery.

I'm a very truthful person, but if the greater good is best served by a lie then I'll tell it.

Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

The sin is in our thoughts.

Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such--an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity is violated by my presence at a wrong or a crime. It is not enough that I cautiously risk my life to prevent it; if it happens, and I was there, and if I survive where the other is killed, I know from a voice within myself: I am guilty of being still alive.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Soldiers who don't know what they're fighting for know, nevertheless, what they're not fighting for.

Progress makes purses out of human skin.

Der Teufel ist ein Optimist, wenn er meint er könnte den Menschen schlechter machen.

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan -Thérèse Nyirabayovu

[D]rugs being tested on animals. That sort of thing, well, it depends, doesn't it? If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it tight?

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.