Quotes About Morality

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

The righteous will claim sole domain on judgement. The righteous are the first to make hands into fists, the first to shout down dissenters, the first to bully others into compliance.

Odd, isn't it, how we now deliver upon another nation what we would not have done to ourselves.

Life was a war against a thousand enemies, from the sustenance carved from nature to the insanity of a people's will to do wrong in the name of right.

Even in sleep, guilt makes it`s point

The hand of vengeance stayed cold only so long. Any soul possessing a shred of humanity could not help but see the reality behind cruel deliverance, no matter how justified it might have at first seemed. Faces blank in death. Bodies twisted in postures no-one unbroken could achieve. Destroyed lives. Vengeance yielded a mirror to every atrocity, where notions of right and wrong blurred and lost all relevance.

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes in Rallick's mind, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain.

It's just the place we chose. To do what's right. But then, maybe that alone gives reason to take us down, to destroy us.

A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie?

The world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous.

Sacrifice must be weighed by the pain of what is surrendered, and this alone was the true measure of a virtue's worth.

Since when did ethics and morality become weapons of submission?

Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing.

indeed no virtue of pragmatism was possible in matters of the soul, and might even prove anathema to the very notion of the sacred.

When that which offers blessing predicates such on the absolute obeisance of the supplicant…demands, in fact, the soul's willing enslavement – no, how could such a force stand tall in moral probity?

Rely not upon conscience,' Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. 'It ever kneels to necessity.' 'And necessity is often a lie