Quotes About Morality

Leave it to the Alderaanians to slap a cheery end on a nice little grisly children's morality tale.

It isn't my job to win . . . my job is simply to take the stand I think right, no matter how unpopular or hopeless or even ridiculous the cause looks, and to have the courage to act on my beliefs. No matter what the consequences turn out to be.

Surely you must understand that the means are no less important than the ends. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

But he told me hatred was wrong, that it was one of those things that hurt the hater more than the people he hated. He told me there can be justice without hatred, and punishment without revenge. He said we were all responsible for what we do and what we don't do, and no one should have to pay for someone else's crimes.

If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you cried out to me 'I love you!', would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?

People who use dirty methods to hurt others... will be destroyed with methods that are even dirtier than theirs!! That's what I call justice!! Not to mention... journalism! - Wolfgangina Lalla Getto

Don't try to be a good guy. It doesn't matter who owes who. From the instant they enter into a war both sides are evil.

To err is human. To kill is evil.

You, without sin, are like the sun You, even with sin, are like the sun

Freedom isn't morally neutral; the emancipation if offers is a means, not an end in itself.

Immanuel Kant's "categorical imperative" says that individual actions are to be judged according to whether we would be pleased if everyone in society took the same action.

A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.

We sink ships and try to pretend that they're just ships—things without people in them. It's dishonest, but we do it anyway.

Lo único que se necesita para que triunfe el mal es que los hombres de bien no hagan nada.»

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.

Morality in his country had been replaced by what was politically correct or incorrect.

no man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all

Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else.

Never before had Jewish morality and Greek philosophy been fused to such momentous effect. That the law of the God of Israel might be read inscribed on the human heart, written there by his Spirit, was a notion that drew alike on the teachings of Pharisees and Stoics—and yet equally was foreign to them both.

It was worth repeating, because it constituted the First Law of Sentient Ordnance: Thou shalt not blow up the wrong planet. On that point the programmers had been insistent to the point of fussiness. Accordingly

There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.

humanity generally gets the Gods it deserves.

Because that's what privilege is-the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't change over time, you know what? They just haven't lived long enough. (Page 33)