Quotes About Morality

The bottom line is...if you were in the civilian population, you'd be a serial killer. Working for the government means you get to wave the American flag around when it suits you, but the truth is, you do what you do because you enjoy picking the wings off of flies. And everybody's an insect in your eyes.

She was a mahmen. She was a lover. She was a proud female, a strong female, a female who knew right from wrong, family from stranger, good from evil. She had lived through two birthings and stood up to a Brother just now, and she would take on the King if she had to. She was fallible and could get confused and might well flounder from time to time. But she would survive. That was what the strong did.

The outcome was moral even if the method was not. And sometimes that was the best you could do.

Keep your hands to yourself, Adrian." God knew the angel seemed willing to fuck anything that moved—which made you wonder if not moving would be a rate-limiting step for him. With a curse, Adrian went all holier-than-thou. "I only touch if they ask." "What a relief." "But you know, reanimation is possible.

He didn't want to get involved, but last night had put him at the front of the line for issues those two needed to work on. Besides, he had some fucked-up idea that if he did the right thing by his roommate, maybe he would deserve Anne a little more.

Good and bad have never been more relative terms than when applied to the likes of you. But I agree with her. To me, you have always been a hero.

How many serial killer stories does one nation need? Give me hero stories any day.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being.

Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness—everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. I was getting the bug myself.

I suddenly began to realize that everyone in America is a natural-born thief.

none of us realize the importance, nay the sweetness, of admiration; it is one of the dying virtues of character.

You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog.

Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all.

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

He who steals my purse steals my right to live, was the reply, old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what

John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.

Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer.