Quotes About Morality

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

The truth is not always useful, not always good. It's like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether is happens to be judged good or evil is a matter for others to decide.

Good laws left to the interpretation of evil men are no longer good.

Without temptation what value is virtue?

From the moralizing of the Christian right to the cruelty and misogyny of Sharia Law, the result is a perverted understanding of our basic, biological nature, particularly when it comes to our urge to procreate. You could call it Religion's Unholy Trinity: Sex, Homosexuality, and Abortion. Sex

But as a boomer with Beatles music in my DNA and Lennon songs in my head, every so often I stop and think about the music he might have created over the last 35 years. Then I think of that sad, twisted prick in prison and wish that every morning you could queue up outside his cell, and when he stuck his head out to get his breakfast, you could step up and punch him in the face. I'd wait in that line. But, I wouldn't shoot him, because violence doesn't solve anything. Though

It is easy for journalism to be morally casual, even as it makes large moral claims for itself. So when journalism is accused by those it serves of privileging sensation before significance, celebrity before achievement, intrusion before purposeful investigation and entertainment before reliability, the charge demands a response. Journalism stands accused of being not so much a public service as a public health hazard.

I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about

it is technically a Category Two SoulCrime to remove or conceal a Ministry of Pain–assigned famulus from your immediate person." Lightning flared again as, muttering and mouthing, Benji Dog was stuffed back into Courtney Hall's bag.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.

It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.

We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions

It's all just policy to you, isn't it?" Rebus said. "No right and wrong, legal and illegal, no fair and corrupt … just politics." "Listen to yourself, man," Sir Iain Hunter spat. "What are you, some Old Testament prophet? Who gives you the right to hold the scales?" He dug the tip of his umbrella into the ground

Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion?

Everything you do from waking till sleeping is against somebody's Bible, Cafferty.