Quotes About Morality

People confuse early rising with moral worth;

In the camp we saw our own people kill each other over a crust of bread. In the old days I used to think that religion did not matter much, that people could be good without it. That was not true in the camps. If you had no hope or faith to keep you human, you sank to the lowest depths. I'll practice my religion more faithfully now.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.

Saccha hai yahan kangal, to Beimaan hai malamal (Here the honest person is poor, the corrupt people are rich)

Mark this! who lives beyond his means Forfeits respect, loses his sense; Where?er he goes, through the seven births, All count him knave: him women hate.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

Why do you find it easy to kill? These are lives dammit!

There is no good or evil in light, or darkness. It does not exist. If there is justice in this world, it may well lie in love, and naught else.

When someone insults you, even murder is forgivable? I see. What you told me is very important. You insulted that innocent old man's life. So I changed one of your guns into a banana. You should savor your last meal as best you can.

Anyway, what does "wrong" mean? Who decides what's wrong and what's right?

La moral no es más que ese famoso círculo de tiza alrededor de la gallina: sólo encierra a los que creen en ella

La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar

Las mentes chatas acostumbran a estimar a un hombre según su posición económica. Yo sigo el camino opuesto y estimo la posición económica según el hombre

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one," Vivi says. "Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day, making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

Stories can justify anything. It doesn't matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn't matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn't. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller.