Quotes About Morality

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

The only good things about his eighteenth year were the things he hadn't done: He hadn't murdered anybody or sold drugs.

People could not accept the presence of Evil. They had to laugh, or shrug. Walk away, or look elsewhere.

You mean I can't chain him to the bumper of my truck and drag him through the city?

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It

But I have not openly admitted that breaking my word or lying are acts of darkness.

Aunt Sugar says that no one is completely evil or completely good. I discovered my bad part when he was so smug. I wanted to strangle him.

Jayden could make her squirm for a little while, but that wouldn't be right. Gramps always told her to do what she knew was right and not worry about those folks around her who were doing wrong.

Solange ich glücklich war, war ich ein ganz guter Mensch.

If you want freedom, somebody's got to fuck a rat.

We can believe in hierarchy. We can believe the universe was made just for us. Hierarchy and a major sense of entitlement are not insurmountable problems. The problem occurs when we treat those whom we believe lie beneath us as slaves. Religion once sustained human slavery. It was wrong then. When it blindly sanctions the slavery of every nonhuman animal, it is wrong now.

Although the last enemy might be death, in long and sad police experience, the first enemy could usually be found, Cain and Abel fashion, within the family circle.

You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you.

I'm a hacker! Cadel protested. I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

The only thing Dis had in common with the Jedi was his connection to the Force. Many Talortai were sensitive to the energy field that bound the universe together, but few of his species ever made use of it, the cowards. They said it wasn't their right, that to do so was somehow immoral. Dis had never understood why. If you were lucky enough to have abilities, shouldn't you use them, hone them to gain an advantage over those who didn't?

Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for nothing destructive flirt and devil.

One derives great moral strength from a cup of coffee, I said.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

The Master of the Universe has so created the world that everything that can be good can also be evil. It is mankind that makes a thing good or evil, Reuven, depending upon how we use the wonders we have been given.

There are times when those who fear God make themselves very unpleasant as human beings.

Better that ten innocent people should suffer," he said, "than one spy get away.

Twenty-five percent of the people polled in a recent national inquiry into American morality said that for $10 million they would abandon their entire family; a large number of people are evidently willing to do the same thing for free. Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were