Quotes About Morality

Y qué es un héroe? [...] - Alguien que se cree un héroe y acierta. O alguien que tiene el coraje y el instinto de la virtud, y por eso no se equivoca nunca, o por lo menos no se equivoca en el único momento en que importa no equivocarse, y por lo tanto no puede no ser un héroe [...]

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

Professor Bullfinch had taken up the obsidian ax, and he hefted it thoughtfully. "I should hate to have to turn this against a person," he said. "Still, a scientist should not shrink from new experiences

Si nous ne nous conduisons pas tout à fait bien, c'est parce qu'il nous reste, à tous, une vague petite notion de devoir au fond de notre désordre qui fait que nous n'avons pas le courage de nous conduire tout à fait mal.

Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are human with them.

Intelligence is analysing things as they are. Imagination is conceiving them as they could be. Morality is conceiving them as they should be. Magic is making them occur the way you conceive them. There is no longer any interest in the mental hygiene of killers. Today we have only the mental hygiene of the victim, and the art of using one's own misfortune as a credit card.

The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politcs, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hypochondriacs from the dead body of ideology and morality.

Against the advice of doctors, the governor refuses to allow an incurably ill man to be put out of his misery. This is the other face of capital punishment. One day we shall have to fight for the abolition of the life penalty, as we did in the past for the abolition of the death penalty. Shadows have always preceded us, and they will outlive us. We were dead before we were alive, and we shall be again.

This is the reappearance of the principle of Evil in a new guise. No morality or guilt is implied, however: the principle of Evil is simply synonymous with the principle of reversal, with the turns of fate. In systems undergoing total positivization - and hence desymbolization - evil is equivalent, in all its forms, to the fundamental rule of reversibility.

if you approach this society with the nuances of moral, aesthetic, or critical judgment , you will miss its originality, which comes from its defying judgment ...

The denunciation of scandal is always an homage to the law. [...] Capital, immoral and without scruples, can only function behind a moral superstructure, and whoever revives this public morality (through indignation, denunciation, etc.) works spontaneously for the order of capital.

When we had no means, we said the end justifies the means. Now that we have no ends, we say the means justify the end. Neither is immoral. What is entirely immoral is that there is no longer any contradiction between the two: ends and means have become indifferent to one another. They are quite simply no longer of the same order.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment. Manicheism is the irreconcilable antagonism between two forces. Morality is merely the opposition of two values. In the order of values, there is always a possibility of reconciliation. The disorder of forces is irreconcilable.

Why are criminal acts and anomalies imputed to a chemical or biological process, but never virtues and good deeds? It does indeed seem that only Evil has a right to an 'objective' explanation. Which suggests that scientific rationality might itself be merely a deeper form of this principle of Evil.

Ma è così sicuro che la corruzione debba essere sradicata?

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.

But it's tempting, isn't it, to give somebody like Olympia or Fenleigh a taste of their own medicine? To get even?' I agree it's tempting. *Really* tempting. But it doesn't solve anything. It just perpetuates the problem by making us as bad as them. And we don't need any more of them, do we?

Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.

It is in order not to become victim of an assassin that we consent to die if we become assassins.

Mancando le qualità morali di misura precisa, se anche ci fosse l'accordo sul segno, come ci potrebbe essere sulla valutazione?

Let the numberless legion of my fellow men gather round me and hear my confessions. Let them groan at my depravities, and blush for my misdeeds. But let each one of them reveal his heart at the foot of Thy throne with equal sincerity, and may any man who dares, say, "I was a better man that he.