Quotes About Morality

B)ut when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

There was a lesson to be learned in every gleaning, and today's was one she would not soon forget. The sanctity of the law...and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather see a killer unwound than the kid next door. Vote yes on Initiative 11.

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.

Honey, I'd never take an unwound part for myself. But when they told me the only way to save my boy's life was to basically gut him and replace all his internal organs with someone else's, I didn't even hesitate. So my conscience will ache for the rest of my life, but that's a small price to pay for having my son still on this earth.

I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.

Itulah yang disebut undang-undang: tebakan cerdas mengenai yang benar dan salah. [P. 235]

Czy ludzie mogli zrobi? co? takiego? Czy mogliby?my walczy? ze sob? o te ratuj?ce ?ycie maszyny, zamieniaj?c je w sterty bezu?ytecznego metalu? Czy mogliby?my tak mocno pragn?? wody, ?e byliby?my gotowi zniszczy? urz?dzenia zdolne j? dla nas wytworzy? - tylko po to, ?eby otrzyma? pierwszy ?yk?

It is the most difficult thing a person can be asked to do. And knowing that it is for the greater good doesn't make it any easier.

Les gens peuvent se conduire en monstres. Que ce soit dans leurs actes ou dans leur nature, peu importe. Le résultat est le même. — Alyssa

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

You know the real reason unwinding keeps going strong, Miss Risa Ward? It isn't because of the parts we want for ourselves--it's because of the things we're willing to do to save our children. Imagine that. We're willing to sacrifice the children we don't love for the ones we do. And we call ourselves civilized!

Você aprende uma coisa depois de ter vivido tanto quanto eu vivi: as pessoas não são completamente boas nem completamente ruins. A gente passa a vida toda entrando e saindo das sombras e da luz. Neste momento eu estou feliz por estar na luz.

It's always the lesser of two evils. I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

It didn't take long for ethics to be crushed by greed.

Those who wish to have the job should not have it… and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

I'm decent to everyone, Rowan pointed out. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a decent person.

submission. Is that the world you want to live in?

What must it be like to go through the motions of life, yet not be alive? Keaton knows he himself lives, because he has compassion for this poor unfortunate creature before him. A creature that is doomed to be nothing more than a collection of parts.

Now there was a supply of anonymous parts for anyone who wanted them. And even if you didn't want younger hands or brighter eyes, there were advertisements everywhere to convince you that you did. 'A new you from the inside out!' the billboards said. 'Add fifty years to your life.' Sonia shakes her head bitterly. They created want...and want turned to need...and unwinding became woven into the fabric of everything.

But then who is he to decide if Dirk truly was soulless? Better to err on the side of grace.

Of course, the bad scythes weren't all in the past. But instead of bad they were now called innovative and forward-thinking. Like the innovative bloodbaths of Scythe Goddard and his killer cronies.

How can you walk away," Connor finally says, "when they're about to overthrow the Cap-17 law?

Remorse. Regret. Sorrow too great to bear. Because if we didn't feel those things, what monsters would we be?