Quotes About Morality

How could a real person kill an imaginary animal?

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

Inside of every being there is a constant war being raged. The part that tell us to do what is right and what is decent and the part of us that is self-serving. The part that wants what it wants regardless of who is hurt getting it.

La violación es solamente una peculiaridad minúscula en las leyes de la física, una que presumiblemente soportan las leyes con gusto.

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

Rather, the lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than to crops, more to Golden Rule than to gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

I guess in the eyes of many, I blew it. I didn't go out with all the babes. Contrary to National Enquirer, I did not buy my home in Simi Valley to line the walls with women. Maybe I had a smorgasbord of women to choose from, but I was never a playboy. My friends couldn't believe how I didn't take advantage of all that female energy rushing in my direction.

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain," Chakotay said with equal certainty. "So is the road to peace," Cambridge observed.

It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

Anyone who needs a reward to be good isn't good. They just like rewards. Good people do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.

But the Bible says 'do not kill,'" Nessa reminded her grandmother. "The Commandments only apply to humans," said the older woman. "Nobody goes to hell for killing a monster.

In the Western mind, any undemocratic political system that deprives citizens the ability to choose or remove a leader is by definition evil.

Corruption should be regarded a disorder just like any other addictions

The more moral your life is the more you live for long ceteris paribus

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Simply put, what we expose as facts or opinions are moral choices that the pandemic has laid bare. They are made in the name of what we think is right or wrong and therefore define us as who we are.

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill

The personal practice of virtues was always deemed different from the hard action that politics sometimes necessitates.

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country.

Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.