Quotes About Morality

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent

nobody ever said doin' the right thing was easy. Simple, yeah, but not easy. Rusty

that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil.

Women deprived of decency are the damdest creatures that ever were borned.

All that's left for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

The world was filled with clever killers who mistakenly believed that they'd never be caught. This was not true. Karma had everyone's address

By 1955 thirteen states had passed laws regulating the publication, distribution, and sale of comic books. Leading intellectuals, including C. Wright Mills, praised Wertham's efforts.70

It's an agent of the devil, sent to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should.

Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

In his conclusion, Zajonc maintains that he has "not encountered a single instance of massacre that was not preceded by extensive development of moral imperatives.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

MacMurrough shifted his gaze from the thick spittle-wet mouth and stared instead through the garden windows. What a dreary drunk he was. He recalled the Spartan custom of inebriating slaves that young men should see how contemptible was drunkenness. Nowadays we leave it to our leshishlashors.

A slimy lawyer is calling someone else sinister? He who is without sin . . .

Humans were neither all good nor all bad—they were just human and fallible, herself included.

Humans were neither all good nor all bad—they were just human and fallible, herself included. With

that the simplest and easiest of virtues, Kindness, can offer all of us not only a Way through the imbroglio, but a Destination too.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that Ethics is but another word for righteousness, that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless.