Quotes About Morality

she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil.

He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own.

So know this, little one. Whether you are the Messiah, or you become a rabbi, or even if you are nothing more than a farmer, here is the sum of all I can teach you, and all that I know: treat others as you would like to be treated. Can you remember that?

One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

You're the one with almost an MBA, Barry, the short balding one, said to Lash. You should know what to do. They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker, Lash countered. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

Jealousy makes you feel bad, but God is jealous, so it must be good. Yet when a dog licks its balls it seems to enjoy it, but it must be bad under the law.

So, from what you guys are saying, there are thousands of humans walking around without souls?' 'Millions, probably,' Charlie said. 'Maybe that explains the last election.

I accidentally shagged a monk last night." "Sometimes, in times of crisis, that shit cannot be avoided.

everyone looks up like rats caught in a spotlight eating the brains of a friend dead in a trap.

Judah could never get the knack of being an adulteress. He'd stand there stiff as Lot's wife. You can't do that. An adulteress has to be wily and nimble-footed.)

entiendo que te sientas obligado a defender tus pecados favoritos

All men are evil, that's what I was talking to my father about." "What did he say?" "Fuck 'em.

El pecado de Onán. Derramar en el suelo la vieja semilla. Atar el camello. Quitarle el polvo al burro. Azotar al fariseo. Onanismo, el pecado que requiere de cientos de horas de práctica para ser dominado, o al menos eso era lo que yo me decía a mí mismo. Dios mató a Onán por derramar su semilla en el suelo (la semilla de Onán, no la de Dios).

You don't have to explain why a character pulled the kid from the freezing river, but there better be a pretty good reason why he held that kid under.

Das Prinzip Moral verstehe ich nicht.« »Das überrascht mich nicht im geringsten.«

Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time.

I didn't think I would ever meet a noble who wasn't corrupt. Now that I have, I find that I prefer them when they're greedy bastards. (Brom to Eragon)

I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

besides, how can you cheat a cheater?

Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor. This killing isn't honest. It is thievery… the thievery of men's lives, and no right-minded person should aspire to it.

On its own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well, which brings us back to the one protection we have against demagogues, tricksters, and the madness of crowds, and our surest guide through the uncertain shoals of life: clear and reasoned thinking. Logic will never fail you, unless you're unaware of—or deliberately ignore—the consequences of your deeds.