Quotes About Morality

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Religion, unlike faith, emphasized strict adherence to texts, and failure to abide by them was perceived as a moral failure.

There was a mathematical elegance to faith like this: believe in God, follow His rules, and you will be rewarded; disbelieve, disobey, and you will be punished.

You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

The choice I mean is to protect our own innocents from the seraphim, instead of slaughtering theirs." "There are no innocent seraphim, said the wolf." "That's what they say when they kill our children.

To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

Good little girls don't stab their nurses and drag toddlers over their corpses in order to save their lives. Good little girls don't kill. They die. And Minya was not a good little girl.

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don't really know what you're going to get.

You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Kindly confirm: If someone's evil, then killing them isn't murder. It's SLAYING, and not only legal but encouraged. Correct?

Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' Nietzsche, you know. Exceptional mustache.

Nunca te arrepientas de tu propia bondad, pequeña. Mantener la sinceridad frente al mal es una muestra de fuerza. -Brimstone

The monks kept a sharp eye on him, determined to keep him free of sin—and of joy, which, if not explicitly a sin, at least clears a path to it.

Think of the Christians fed to the lions because they wouldn't renounce their faith. As if their god wouldn't forgive them their desire to life?..." "Are you kidding me? You're going to blame the Christians, not the Romans? How about they just don't throw them to the goddamn lions in the first place? Don't delude yourself. You're the monster here.

Ziri spürt Hoffnung. Eine Hoffnung, die er gut kennt und die er verachtet: die hässliche, schwarze Hoffnung, man könnte dadurch, dass man andere tötet, selbst länger leben.

Feltetted-e valaha magadnak a kérdést, hogy a szörnyek csinálják a háborút, vagy a háború csinálja a szörnyeket?

She never would, either, unless she earned it, and she knew too well how humans earned wishes. Chiefly: hunting, graverobbing, and murder.

You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?