Quotes About Morality

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.

For an All-Expenses-Paid, one-week vacation anywhere in the world, would you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly by pulling off it's wings? What about stepping on a cockroach?

Bad art, for Niemeyer, was not just that which promotes immorality, but, in an even deeper sense, promotes unreality—the fantasy that leaves us locked in private purgatories.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions, and unwanted children living in misery. [Norwegian Prime Minister, speech at 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo. Quoted in The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World, Michelle Goldberg 2009, pp. 103-104]

I'll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she turns 18.

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Rich feeds poor or disadvantaged only for own publicity.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

At the end of the day, developing goodness comes down to a simple question: Will this emotion, thought or action, increase or decrease my capacity for goodness?

Moral growth corresponds with people's ability to see the world from an ever-increasing number of perspectives and act accordingly.

He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.

La vie nous met parfois dans des situations dont nous ne pouvons nous extraire qu'en renonçant aux valeurs que nous défendons...

Ako stvarno misliš da pisci imaju moralne vrednosti koje daju svojim likovima, onda si stvarno naivan. ?ak i pomslo glup.

Život nas ponekad stavlja u situacije iz kojih ne možemo iza?i a da ne pogazimo vrednosti koje branimo.

Dentro de nosotros habitaba un pequeño Goebbels que nos dictaba la forma más apropiada de reelaborar la verdad para mantener incólume tu aureola de prohombre. Éramos tus publirrelacionistas.

The world changes, or doesn't. You fight for the right things and be glad you did.

We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals and laws to direct the masses by fear or hatred, and, in doing so, have managed to create a system of wealth and remuneration that has concentrated the vast majority of the world's wealth in the hands of a select few. Over the course of two thousand years,

But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case.

We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals and laws to direct the masses by fear or hatred, and, in doing so, have managed to create a system of wealth and remuneration that has concentrated the vast majority of the world's wealth in the hands of a select few.

Man should be better than monsters. Ah, but who are the monsters?

Do we not all do monstrous things to prevent the ultimate monstrous act? I like to visualize the world as a china plate held aloft by two sticks, one the US, the other the USSR. If one stick rises, so must the other, or else the plate goes smash.