Quotes About Morality

Donc, il est juste et vrai que la séparation du spirituel et du sensuel chez un homme est signe de sa virilité, et la séparation du spirituel et du sensuel chez une femme est signe de sa prostitution. Et il suffirait que toutes les femmes, ensemble, se virilisent, pour que le monde, le monde entier, se transforme en bordel. ( from "Roman avec cocaïne" )

As countless readers have pointed out, the Book of Job does not answer the question, "Why do bad things happen?" It does, however, tell us that humanity's most common answer to this question is wrong. Material misfortunes, the poet insists, do not trace back to moral choices in any way that human beings can evaluate. There

One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist.

honorific pronoun.

The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men.

The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men. D

The concept of "purity of arms" was forged by the Haganah, meaning that combatants' weapons shouldn't be soiled by hurting civilians, women, children or unarmed enemy soldiers.

God prefers a good atheist to a wicked believer.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable it's not morally right it's just not going to happen.

When you talk about "saving the planet" you turn it into an ethical question, and I think you won't solve problems if they are ethical.

4. The Evil Sorceress who finds Hansel and Gretel plans to a. feed them her leftovers forever b. make them clean her house all day long c. hold them hostage until their parents pay for them d. eat them

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster," as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. "And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Walter

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?

In comparison with the value of one soul, all the sacrifices we make are small in comparison.

Objects being easier to destroy than human beings, it is necessary at times to turn human beings into objects.

Koristiti se drugim ljudskim bi?em kao objektom,?ak i u privatnosti vlastitih misli,zna?i poniziti bi?e te osobe. To zna?i dehumanizirati i samoga sebe i drugoga.

Sure I care about it, just not enough to play cards with my integrity as a poker chip.

Good. You realize what temptation can do to even the strongest virtue?

Man could not love if he were unable to choose love, and with this choice came the ability to choose love's opposite.

is possible that man can devise new forms of violation. But the essential sin remains more or less the same. Each of us, including the best of men, is tempted to make himself into God.