Quotes About Morality

pues no es digno de personas de bien poseer a otras en condición de objetos.

A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.

A penny from God will take you further than a dollar from the devil.

Act sensibly. Act sincerely. Act selflessly. Act splendidly.

Suppress hate; love generously. Work passionately, live honorably, and love genuinely.

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've doing something awful. And your life is changed forever.

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've done something awful. And your life is changed forever.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

Back during the war, the sides were a lot clearer. Now that we're fighting other humans again as well, things get muddy real fast. Many soldiers who were fantastic against the Covenant have now balked at battling the Front or any of the other dozens of homegrown terrorist groups across our worlds.

The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. But if it was important enough for David Hume to write that thought down, then maybe it was important enough to aim to do something good. To help preserve life, in all its forms.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.

No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren't sharp enough to hurt.

Homo sapiens sabahlar? bir canl?y? öldürebileceÄŸi bilgisiyle uyanan ilkel bir avc?yd? eskiden. Åžimdi ise, sabahlar? bir ÅŸey sat?n alabileceÄŸi bilgisiyle uyan?yordu yaln?zca.

Listen, I know you think my father was a bad human, and it was a bad thing he did, but there was good, too. He was just weak. We had no money. Humans are... complicated.

They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

They can drive a car thirty miles every day and feel good about themselves for recycling a couple of empty jam jars. They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

Lives are lost in order to save more lives. That is what the society is fighting.

he was a good person, and good people were rare

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

The thing people overlook, though," Mr. Fox added, "is that that whole part of the story describing the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde, that's all Dr. Jekyll talking. And you can't trust Jekyll." As Mr. Fox spoke he looked away from the chessboard, and his daughter took the opportunity to sneak her queen onto a different square.

Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.