Quotes About Morality

Sometimes the monsters are not monsters, she says. I know. I nod. And sometimes the monsters are within us all, even in those we think are most good.

She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.

Friedrich Nietzsche says, "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

Them that live by the gun should die by the gun, is good sound twentieth century gospel.

An unused conscience is no conscience at all.

By their peculiar "reasoning," too, theologians have sanctioned most of the ills of the ages. They justified the Inquisition, serfdom, and slavery. Theologians of our time defend segregation and the annihilation of one race by the other. They have drifted away from righteousness into an effort to make wrong seem to be right.

That we can act in the world not as we are "in reality" is, for Gurov, a very good thing. Our public life, "which was visible to everybody who needed to know about it, but was full of conditional truth and conditional deceit" was balanced by a private life, which was hidden from others and in which we are sincere. Doubleness is not duplicity. It is precisely the sincerity of what is hidden that makes tolerance so necessary and moral condemnation so difficult.

Now I look back and realize the devastating impact that Hair's message had on my thinking, religious outlook, attitudes and morality.

Technology has allowed...our society to separate itself from the sights and the sounds of killing.... It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

We are blind to the fact that what we do to them deprives them of their rights; we do not want to see this because we profit from it, and so we make use of what are really morally irrelevant differences between them and ourselves to justify the difference in treatment.

If manipulation really does increase welfare, then it would seem to be justified and even mandatory on ethical grounds.

But it is true that in its usual forms, consequentialism seems to conflict with some of our deepest intuitions, certainly in new or unfamiliar situations.2 For example, human beings appear to be intuitive retributivists; they want wrongdoers to suffer. With respect to punishment, efforts to encourage people to think in consequentialist terms do not fare at all well.3

The French thinker Francois de La Rochefoucauld proclaimed: "Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue."7 If the Rule of Law sometimes produces hypocrisy, at least we know what counts as vice and what counts as virtue.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

That was enterprising," Will sounded nearly impressed. Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. "Don't look pleased with yourself. When Will says 'enterprising' he means 'morally deficient.'" "No, I mean enterprising," said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say, 'Now, that's something I would have done'.

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

Lawful good to lawful evil!" said Simon, pleased. "He's quoting Dungeons and Dragons," said Clary. "Ignore him.

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

George Gollin gay pornography link: I was going to fuck them.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure.

Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?