Quotes About Morality

To win a war or a revolution does not validate the cause.

The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.

Chigurh shot him through the forehead and then stood watching. Watching the capillaries break up in his eyes. The light receding. Watching his own image degrade in that squandered world.

Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian. Let's go then. Hump up there, stranger, and let's go get hung.

Pomisli da možda u istoriji sveta ?ak i ima više kazni nego zlo?ina, ali ne bi mu to uteha.

That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now?

I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I didnt have to go but I did. I sure didnt want to. He'd killed a fourteen year old girl and I can tell you right now I never did have no great desire to visit with him let alone go to his execution but I done it.

Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all.

You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said. I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one.

If you pursue this road that you've embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less. The

You think you can believe in heaven if you dont believe in hell? I guess you can believe what you want to. Rawlins

Two wrongs don't make a riot.

Satan is only interested in your soul. He doesnt give a shit about your welfare otherwise.

No hay criterio definitivo que pueda demostrar la bondad o maldad de un juicio ético. Que

Would it have done any good? No sir. But that dont make it right.

You didnt slack up on him just the littlest bit? No. I dont believe in it.

Shoo, said the old man. I wouldn't turn Satan away for a drink.

I was a born classicist and my heroes were never saints but killers.

Am I a monster, are there monsters in me ?

Might does not make right, said Irving.

The best way to die well is to live well. To die for another would give your death meaning. Ignoring for the time being the fact that the other is going to die anyway.