Quotes About Morality

nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice

Give your oppressed masses a sense of virtue accumulated through suffering, and stand back and marvel as they censor themselves and act in a decent, God-fearing, law-abiding and—best of all—long-suffering manner, in order to feel ethically superior to you. I've

If you've achieved complete ass-out shamelessness, however, you can dispense with virtue quite easily. It's really very liberating, and crucial to great wealth in a free market. It's

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Americans see everything too simply—a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Indeed it is, Kate,' Marak agreed. 'It's time to plan your revenge. Goblins just adore revenge.' He grinned. 'Do you have anything in mind?' Kate was taken aback. 'Revenge is wrong,' she told him solemnly. 'Vengeance belongs to God.' The goblin put his head to one side and watched her through narrowed eyes. 'You won't even give God a little help?' he asked softly.

Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?

The only way to avoid the consequences of uncomfortable moral concessions in your life is to never start making them in the first place. When the first step down that path presents itself, turn around and walk the other way.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. —Will Rogers

Ethics are more important than laws. —Wynton Marsalis, artistic director, Jazz at Lincoln Center

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

What do the good know?' he said. 'Except what the bad teach them by their excesses?

That's not fair! Life's not fair, Kaspar. You know that. You had a slave for — how long? Twelve years. Did you treat him 'fairly'? No, of course not. You beat him when you were in a bad mood, because it made you feel better, and when you felt better you beat him some more.

Women are these wonderful mysteries and they excite me on all kinds of levels. Their power over us is, I think, often a moral power as well as a sexual power. I think women, generally speaking, have a better sense of what is whole and good and sensible. The old feminist line, 'Take the toys from the boys' is an extremely sensible observation, you know?

They will say your doubts shed innocent blood. But I say - what's blood for, if not for shedding?

Every man is his own Mephistopheles, don't you think?

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.

there is evil in this world. And all it takes for it to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

I do not believe that any form of lasting community can exist where people do not share the same sense of what is just and what is not just.

A revolutionary is only a terrorist until he's achieved his revolution. After that he's a hero. An outcome makes a morality...

Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate greys is tiresome and perplexing.

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