Quotes About Morality

I know you value the rules, but sometimes . . . sometimes breaking them is the right thing to do. I

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

BARBARA: Right. (Beat) You've known about Daddy and Mattie Fae all these years. VIOLET: Oh, sure. I never told them I knew. But your father knew. He knew I knew. He always knew I knew. But we never talked about it. I chose the higher ground.

An ethic unshaped by eschatology is neither Jesus' nor Christian.

So the disciple of Proverbs will acquire discipline that will produce a prudent life, and that prudent life will be demonstrated by "doing what is right and just and fair.

The power itself comes from the fact that you can do something and people can't see you do it and what kind of responsibility do you have when you can do it. What kind of good things can you do or can you do good things from being invisible in this way?

Ä°tiraf ruha iyi gelir, Montjean. Ruhu boÅŸalt?r, yeni günahlar için yer haz?rlar.

Dedikodu bizim kad?nlar?m?za günah?n tad?n? ç?karma olana?? verir. Kendi iÅŸlemeyecekleri, iÅŸleyemeyecekleri günahlar. Çünkü onlar? cesaretsizlikleri, hayal güçlerinin eksikliÄŸi ve f?rsats?zl?k engelliyor. Biz de bu eksikliklere namus diyoruz.

uprooted and ruthless thinking which can create nuclear weapons in the name of the advancement of science while caring nothing for the threat it involves to all life on the planet.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Then who do we answer to? Ourselves?" "Of course. Who else can we trust to wield our power? We must follow our own consciences." - Corran and Jacen

If you're out to win at any cost, you may find the price is higher than you ever expected to pay.

The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.

being a good dragon is about the choices you make no matter where you are or who raised you or how.

That's kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn't catch you, then you're not doing anything wrong, are you?" That sounded true. That sounded very true!

Maybe losing your soul isn't the right way to describe it," Turtle said. "Maybe it's more like … the more you use your power for bad things, the more you feel like you're entitled to use your power for anything. It makes it harder to go back — only forward into more bad things.

Some are kinder than others, or braver than others, and some of them do really cruel things. But everyone has both good thoughts and bad thoughts and reasons for what they do, reasons that they believe are important' (Moonwatcher)

If so, it was bad, it was very, very bad that a part of him was tempted not to stop them.

I mean . . . there are dragons who do bad things, Fathom said. But maybe that doesn't make them all bad. Maybe they can also do good things. Maybe some of those bad things are just mistakes.

Scarlet was murderous and insane. Not exactly the role model I want to follow.

There's no difference between justice and revenge.

Only god can judge me