Quotes About Morality

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

I'm against the death penalty. I believe that it is a mistake to show that killing people is wrong by killing people. However I'm not against the random killing of people who snore.

Navajos did not kill with cold-blooded premeditation. Nor did they kill for profit. To do so violated the scale of values of The People. Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.

The practice of euthanasia, under some circumstances, is morally required by the two most widely regarded principles that guide medical practice: respect for patient autonomy and promoting patient's best interests. In the Netherlands and Belgium active euthanasia may be carried out within the law.

The four classes are: 1) Good for you, good for other people, 2) Good for you, bad for other people 3) Bad for you, good for other people and 4) Bad for you, bad for other people.

God cannot be bound by a law, a moral code, a universal sense of justice, or a "deep magic from the dawn of time." God could have forgiven us of our sin however God wanted too—with or without the execution of his son.

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.

'Breaking Bad' is the best, the greatest, the most amazing thing I have ever watched on television.

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

Mama shook her head. "No, they don't kill for food. They kill for sport and for the thrill of the chase.

The first duty of society is justice. ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757–1804)

You know . . . I'm thinking that maybe we should be the ones to benefit from this motherfucker's stupidity." Trina looked up at Pat. "What, you mean . . . ?" "Let's rob this faggot. Why not?

How might an unscrupulous person try to get around those famous laws, designed to protect humans, as well robots, from each other?

If what you're sowing isn't evil, you should have nothing to fear.

When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.

One person's karma becomes two people's karma through sexual relations, which can be good or bad. That is why you must have sexual relations with only one partner so that you do not load yourself with the karma and pollution of many others.

What is right and what is wrong is a very sensitive matter.

How nice it feels to be good," she thought quietly.

Å, Anna Aemelin, det eneste du bryr deg om, er din egen samvittighet, det er den du pleier.

Let me get this straight. You didn't feel it would be acceptable to enter my home without permission, but taking my clothes was just fine and dandy?" -Marin

Silence is better than a fabrication.

But what if I were another kind of man? What if I were the sort to have taken advantage of our unusual situation? You must realize, Miss Amberley, that had I wished, I might have done almost anything to you by now." A startled laugh escaped her lips. "Are you saying you might have murdered me in my bed? Do not be ridiculous, my lord." "I wasn't thinking about murder, but beds would definitely have been involved.