Quotes About Morality

the qualities that led the top Nazis to commit and tolerate acts of horror existed in many people, living in many places.

Psychology, above all, is applying human understanding in a scientific manner. . . . The only profession I have ever encountered which separates the role of a human being from his professional activity," he declared, "was the role of the SS man.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn puts it, "If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart?

If only there were evil people out there insidiously committing evil deeds and it was only necessary to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who among us is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart?

It is through virtuous conduct, through loving-kindness and compassion, and through understanding of truth that one becomes noble.

it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

There are only three kinds of people in the universe, no matter what their race or form. They are scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep.

When a nation was faced with a choice between abstract principle or complete self-interest, it took self-interest every time.

Was having someone else hunt and kill for you any different, morally, than doing it yourself, or was it worse because it removed you from the act while still requiring the kill?

Nothing done in love that harms no one can be perverse.

Power without the wisdom to use it properly was a very good definition of evil,

I am deficient in character, and if I had more of it, I would be ashamed of the fact.

Show me a man of unflinching rectitude and I'll show you a man who hasn't been offered his price.

Doesn't matter, does it?" said George. "They're just as dead. Their blood is on your hands." "They don't have blood." "Humans are only literal when they're ashamed of something.

Religion is like having children, or taking medicine, or eating, or any of a thousand other perfectly rational human activities: Taken in small doses, it has much to recommend it. One need only avoid going overboard.

God is no saint, strange to say. There is much to object to in him, and many attempts have been made to improve him.

condition for days? Or should I end her torture quickly? I couldn't take her to the hospital, I'd go to jail for sure. I

Sociopath was really just a politically correct way to say "the devil".

Theological Seminary, points out that the sin of Sodom is mentioned several times elsewhere in the Bible, but never in connection with homosexual acts.

Listen, Bob. A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel—or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good—and as bad—as the man who carries it. Remember that.

A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who carries it.

What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts.