Quotes About Morality

Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.

Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation

But in the end, all wars are more or less the same. If you dig down through the layers of caramel corn and peanuts and choking, burning death, you'll find the prize at the bottom and the prize is a question and the question is this: Which of us are people and which of us are meat?

Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing. I

The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.

War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.

War must always be done out of sight, or it shocks people and they stop immediately.

what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?

Can you imagine there being so many people that you could just murder one and nobody would know who did it right away?

You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.

I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.

A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.

Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.

I've been thinking a lot about rules lately. About karma, I guess, even though most people just viciously abuse that word. They don't give one spangly fuck about the wheel of becoming and unbecoming.

He'll never be good if he can't choose to be nasty. It's the choice that makes the good.

You can't stop people being assholes. They do love it so. The best you can hope for is that some people, sometimes, will turn out to be somewhat less than the absolute worst. When they manage to trip and fall over that incredibly low bar, they'll make you want to end it all. But when they leap over it, they'll make you believe this whole mess really was created for a reason—the bastards.

A billionaire Swiss friend had put it wonderfully when he said that having money merely emphasized what you were all along. If you were a poor son of a bitch, you'd turn into an even worse son of a bitch with money. But if you were fundamentally decent, then you'd stay that way - simply with a nicer bank balance

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others,; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.

You cannot right injustice by injustice.

man will silence the voice of his conscience when it suits him to commit sin. But