Quotes About Morality

It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?

I've never raised my hand on anyone in my whole life. I feel it's barbaric.

As the world is waxing worse, people are turning back to the basics of God.

Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it's just very important to me.

I talk to my god every day and he's completely fine with me beating the hell out of people.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

Bad behaviour on TV is quite nauseating and putting off.

I gotta be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm being honest.

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.… We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

He offered a crystal-clear notion of right and wrong, an unambiguous definition of good and evil. And although his perspective was absolutist and unyielding, it presented a kinder, gentler alternative to Calvinism, which had been the ecclesiastical status quo in the early years of the American republic.

I have to admit, the terrorists were following their prophet," Dan says. "They were willing to do essentially what I did. I see the parallel. But the difference between those guys and me is, they were following a false prophet, and I'm not. "I believe I'm a good person," Dan insists. "I've never done anything intentionally wrong. I never have.

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. . . .

When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.

It is morally impossible to remain neutral in this conflict. The bystander is forced to take a side. It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demand action, engagement, and remembering...

We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality.

Fundamentalists call defrauding the government "bleeding the beast" and regard it as a virtuous act.

As an obedient Saint, he had already pledged not to drink, smoke, take illegal drugs, ingest caffeine, masturbate, or engage in premarital sex.