Quotes About Morality

how can human beings behave in ways that so thoroughly violate both reasonable and rational norms?

the cubicles of sin

Kelso maintained that the acquisition of the book was an expression of her free speech. Reverend Campbell argued that his right to pray for someone's soul was an expression of his free speech. As the lawsuit advanced, Reverend Campbell's right to free speech seemed to gain the moral upper hand

It was said of Dante that he always had time for lechery.

And if an AI is a conscious being, forcing it to serve us would be akin to slavery.

If superintelligent machines are not conscious, either because it's impossible or because they aren't designed to be, we could be in trouble.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

The Bodhisattva says he will do wrong to stop wrongdoing. . . . He will kill to stop killing. As an exception. He calls it 'doing surgery, not violence.' You remove the one killer to stop many killings.

Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!

Corruption wouldn't be tempting if it didn't feel so good.

Lying is a thriving vocation.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could.

Men can sleep with a different woman every night and indulge in the most revolting practices--but let an unmarried woman make one mistake, be led astray when she's young and silly and knows nothing of the world, and she's tainted for life and called a harlot!

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.

It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred. . . . Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children's lives to settle its differences.

And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

It costs your life," says Caesar. "Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.