Quotes About Morality

said, —Monasteries are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.

are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.

Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

What do you think we ought to do? she asked. Do? Put his sorry ass away. Tell the law and let them open the graves themselves. Put him away forever in some crazyhouse. They'd have to. You think they would? I know they would. What would you do with him? There's supposed to be respect for the dead. It's the way we evolved or something. It's genetic. This man here…he wouldn't cull anything. He'd do anything.

But, Hubertus, Cayce offers, what if Dorothea is... Yes? He leans forward, palms flat on the table. A vicious lying cunt? Bigend giggles, a deeply alarming sound. Well, he says, we are in the business of advertising, after all. He smiles.

Coldiron is concerned about the townspeople not being priced out of chili dogs, but willing to condone dosing religious protesters, however repellant, with something that turns them into homicidal erotomaniacs?

They both knew she knew this was bullshit, but she guessed that was the way it went, when somebody you knew killed some people and you didn't want them to get caught for it. They were teaching her the story as it needed to be told, and telling it to her in a way that wouldn't require her to tell anything but the truth about what they'd told her.

Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!

Are we savages or what?

I must say that anyone who passed through those years [of World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

I cannot convince myself that my mental capacities are important enough to justify either the good or the harm they started.

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.

The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There was a crime committed in that war the like of which perhaps was never committed in human history. You think about it.

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man produces evil as a bee produces honey

William Golding

Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?

They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned

William Golding

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

The social doctors enjoy the satisfaction of feeling themselves to be more moral or more enlightened than their fellow-men. They

When the only contemporary means of self-transcendence is orgasm, we Christians are going to have a tough time convincing people that it would be nicer if they would not be promiscuous.

Obliteration bombing of civilian populations had come to be seen as a military necessity. A terrible evil had been defended as a way to a greater good. After the bomb, all sorts of moral compromises were easier—nearly two million abortions a year seemed a mere matter of freedom of choice, and the plight of the poor in the world's richest nation was a matter of economic necessity.