Quotes About Morality

Ms. Cormier, who has the right to judge someone else? Well, she said. That depends on whether you're judging in a moral sense or a legal sense. Morally, no one has the right to judge anyone else. But legally, its not a right-it's a responsibility.

The best thing is what you think should be done. The rightest thing is what needs to be done-when you think not just of you and how you feel, but also the extra stuff-who else is involved, and what's happened before, and what the rules say.

You can't buy a clean conscience.

There are two reasons to not tell the truth -- because lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

I believe in Hell . . . but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

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.

Entre uma boa acção e uma má acção existem mil tons de cinzento.

Sage shakes her head. "Surely there were some Germans who were better than others, some who didn't want to go along with what Hitler said. If you can't see them as individuals—if you can't forgive the ones who ask for it—doesn't that make you just as bad as any Nazi?""No," I admit. "It makes me human.

But this isn't true. Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other. To

It is impossible to believe anything in a world that has ceased to regard man as man, that repeatedly proves that one is no longer a man. —Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower

She knew, even at that young age, that you cannot separate good and evil cleanly, that they are conjoined twins sharing a single heart.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint.

whenever people start talking about curing too many things with science, I'm always glad bioethics wasn't

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

If you chose to stop a loved one's suffering—either before it began or during the process—was that murder, or mercy?

believe in Hell… but it's here on earth." He shakes his head. "Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

Caesar snorts. 'Maybe it was. Maybe the fat guy was really a suicide arsonist. He crawled up into the chimney and lit himself on fire.' 'Maybe he was just desperate to lose weight,' Paulie adds, and the other guys crack up. 'Enough,' I say. 'Aw, Fitz, you gotta admit it's pretty funny – ' 'Not to that man's parents. Not to his family.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy

Good people are good people, religion has nothing to do with it.

In Judaism, that's called teshuvah. It means 'turning away from evil.' It's not a one-time deal, either. It's a course of action. A single act of repentance is something that makes the person who committed the evil feel better, but not the person against whom evil was committed.

But my mother also would have been the first to tell me that good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

The fundamental sense of freedom involves something far larger than simply being left alone to follow one's own best self-interest. The idea of freedom is considerably more than private value. Individual autonomy is nested within a complex of obligations individuals have toward one another. Obligations are required for freedom to be moral. Far from being individualistic, freedom is an essential social idea. (Schwarz 2005:4)

Back in the twentieth century, they had established to everybody's satisfaction that 'I was just following orders' was an inadequate excuse for inhuman contact … but what can you do when the orders come from deep down in that puppet master of the unconscious?

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