Quotes About Morality

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

A rights-centered society, must, however, take seriously the fact that duties are not natural. They must be taught. Self-interest is common and steady; virtue is rare and unpredictable. A society devoted to guaranteeing a broad scope for self-interested behavior must be leavened by virtue. So measures must be taken to make virtue less rare and more predictable. Among those measures, Americans have always considered education crucial.

Almost everyone will be nice to almost everyone, using money taken from a few.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The men performed their roles like actors trapped in a morality play

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

Morality starts as a simple concept and becomes complicated.

There is a quote attributed to Honoré de Balzac: behind every great fortune there is a great crime.

He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin." Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. "Oh, that's nice." "It's very nice. I highly recommend it.

For example, if a starving man pulls a gun on you and you get the upper hand, you will likely let him go because you will feel sorry for him. That's the kind of person you are." "And what kind of person are you?" His face was hard. "The kind who shoots first.

Society frowned on killing your best friend. In this case, it would just have to make an exception.

If it feels wrong, it probably is.

Barbarism usually produces swift death. Cruelty is the mark of a civilized human.

I looked at Curran. "You killed an animal god and then you ate him?" "Maybe," Curran said. "What do you mean maybe?

How do you explain humanity to someone who has no frame of reference? "It has to do with good and evil. You have to decide for yourself what they are. For me, evil is striving to an end without regard for the means.

They call the undead inhuman, not realizing the irony: only humans are capable of inhumanity.

You sent an assassin to kill a baby," I said. "A baby. My best friend's daughter." "If it helps, I wavered before issuing the order.

He's my fiancé," I told her. "We are living in sin.

We had accepted this job pro bono, because snatching a service animal from a child in a wheelchair was a heinous act and someone had to make it right.

The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can't be situational or it's not right or wrong.

Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one.

Because killing random people just because they did something you don't like makes you the bad guy.

He shook his head. "Better to do a small wrong to prevent a big one." "How do you decide what is a 'small' wrong? Let's say, you buy the safety of many with the life of a child. That child means everything to her parents. You devastated them. There is no greater wrong you can