Quotes About Morality

Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one? (Three Penny Opera)

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do.

I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.

wondering if Allah really got personally involved in the butchering of children to secure a heroin production factory. When the day came, who would God be more angry with: men like him who acted with no regard to His will, or men like these who used Him to justify their own brutality and ambition?

I'm hardly a stranger to the concept of bending rules to achieve a greater good.

What's a woman supposed to do when her angel starts using her devil's tools?

Evil exists, and the good, sad to say, can never catch up with it.

good can never catch up with evil, because with the gap between good and evil there is no hope whatsoever.

Who says that taking the supposed high road is the best path?

You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

there are biddies, always biddies, everywhere in this world, who are more concerned with the morals of others than they are with their own. A

While there are some who extol your virtues, Miss Faber, there are others who wonder why you are not yet hanged." "I have determined that hanging would not suit my constitution, Sir, so I have tried to avoid it." A

Pray in church and sin at home.

The right thing to do is always the one that only your heart can give the answer.

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore

Well then," Faye said. "Now that you've heard our story, we have just one question to ask you." She fixed Cassie with an odd half smile and said in a sweet, false voice, "Are you planning to be a good witch or a bad witch?

Jenny looked up quickly. "Do you believe in good and evil?" "Oh, yes. Very strongly. And I believe that evil sometimes has to be fought—personally. Hand to hand. If you care enough to do it.

He lied, Jenny thought, racing up the steps. He changed the rules and he lied. Sometimes you can't return good for evil; sometimes evil simply has to be stopped.

do no harm. help when you can. return good for evil.

There is no good and evil, only black and white. But either black or white on its own is boring, Jenny. If you mix them you get so many colors— so many colors...

What kind of world is it that lets a thing like that happen? That lets a girl like Sue get murdered for kicks, or kids in Afghanistan starve, or baby seals get skinned alive? -Matt Honeycutt

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For a moment Eustace contemplated an existence spent in pleasing himself. How would he set about it? He had been told by precept, and had learned from experience, that the things he did to please himself usually ended in making other people grieved and angry, and were therefore wrong. Was he to spend his life in continuous wrong-doing, and in making other people cross? There would be no pleasure in that. Indeed what pleasure was there, except in living up to people's good opinion of him?