Quotes About Morality

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

If you're thinking about doing something you won't be able to confess to your spouse or best friend, then DON'T DO IT! YOU ALREADY KNOW IT'S WRONG!

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.

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

Estar por los animales no es estar contra la humanidad. Exigirr que otros traten a los animales con justicia (...) no es pedir nada más o nada menos que lo que se pide en el caso de cualquier humano a quien se le debe un trato justo.

Hitler's core—"The fact that a man is decent is no reason why we should not eliminate him.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

There's a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

Morality depends on culture. Culture depends on climate.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. In fact, the person who maintains absolute standards of good and evil usually is the maniac with the revolver.

But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It's so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its decency, that only Satan hisself could've come up with it.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. ? Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

Little devils wrestled with little angels in the innermost chambers of my conscience. The devils cheated, of course, although where my conscience was concerned they were also more familiar with the terrain.

Freedom has long proven too heady an elixir for America's masses, weakened and confused as they are by conflicting commitments to puritanical morality and salacious greed.

The law is designed to help us live. It has no other justification. If it cannot do that, if it operates only theoretically, the law will fail us." Senator Stevens stares