Quotes About Morality

Personally, I would never use sexuality or looks as a selling point.

I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Ability without honor is useless.

If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent.

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.

There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more. What happens is that something is done to him for the sake of others. Talk of an overall social good covers this up.

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques Mr. Mann brought to bear on 'Heat,' right down to using a similar cold-blooded electronic score.