Quotes About Morality

The most important thing to understand when it comes to our baser parts is not only how normal and natural it is to have them but that there is nothing wrong in having them. Bad is doing bad, not thinking bad (there are exceptions—see the next chapter), and it is certainly not merely having bad tendencies.

Sin would have fewer takers if the consequences occurred immediately.

The laws of man are made only to be broken, because they are stupid and unjust.

We ought not to do to our future selves what it would be wrong to do to other people.

What now matters most is that we avoid ending human history. If there are no rational beings elsewhere, it may depend on us and our successors whether it will all be worth it, because the existence of the Universe will have been on the whole good.

This part of Kant's view is, I believe, a profound truth. We can be morally responsible in several other ways, or senses, but no one could ever be responsible, I believe, in any way that could make them deserve to suffer. Nor, I believe, does anyone deserve to be less happy.

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin.

Who with the Devil tries to play fair, weaves the net of his own despair. Oh, smile; what's a house between drunkards?

From which it follows that neither praise nor blame nor honours nor punishments are fair".

What about evil, you may ask? Aren't some people just evil, just monsters, and aren't such people just unforgivable? I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil. To relegate someone to the level of monster is to deny that person's ability to change and to take away that person's accountability for his or her actions and behavior.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality

But just as we do not forgive for others, we also do not forgive for God.

If you are neutral in a situation of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all. --Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie

The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Catholics don't believe in divorce," Bree had informed him once. "We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.

It wasn't the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, after all; it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Knowledge might be a poisoned gift—but it was still a gift, and few people would voluntarily give it back.

Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?

If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense.

The thing was, some men needed killing. The Church didn't admit that, save it was war. The Mohawk understood it fine. So did Uncle Jamie.

But war's war, Sassenach. Honor only makes it a bit easier to live wi' yourself, afterward.

Fraser closed his eyes for an instant, frowning, then opened them again. "I see," he said, very dry. "So was I to kill him, ye'd be obliged to fight me? And if he killed me, ye'd fight him? And should we kill each other, what then?" "I suppose I'd call a surgeon to dispose of your bodies and then commit suicide," Grey said, a little testily. "But let us not be rhetorical.