Quotes About Morality

Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.

The only sign of "superiority" I acknowledge in Man is goodness.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

If one treats men like cattle, one cannot squeeze out of them more than cattle-like performances.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

I know this much: morality is meant to be a clear line, but it's not really. Things change. Shit happens. Who we are is about not what we do, but why we tell ourselves we do it.

What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law?

It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away.

There's really no such thing as a right or wrong choice. We don't make decisions. Our decisions make us.

So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person? I don't know, I admit.But I do think that some stains never wash out.

what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with.

Nobody's all good or all bad. They just get painted that way.

Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

It's got to be a nice life, long as you don't get caught.

there are just some people you cannot find the good in. But who am I to decide if someone should be killed for murdering a child...instead of for murdering a drug addict during a deal that went bad...or even if we should be killing the inmate himself? I'm not smart enough to be able to say which life is worth more than the other. I don't know if anyone is.

Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus on it, it becomes less and less clear.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal. They're not mutually exclusive.

May be the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty first century sin...but whether the people who define sin have changed, because of the times.

Morally, no one has the right to judge anyone else. But legally, it's not a right - it's a responsibility.

You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.

What is ethical to a lawyer differs from what's ethical to the rest of the world.

It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that there is no black or white. There are gradations of gray.

I like the word 'evil'. Scramble it a little and you will get 'vile' and 'live'. 'Good', on the other hand, is just a command to 'go do'.