Quotes About Morality

The foundation of democracy is conscience—personal responsibility. The society that abandons moral absolutes must eventually degenerate into a police state. Well, this nation has abandoned morality. Is it realistic to think we can avoid the consequences?

Tell me, Pan Tarnowski, did your father not teach you to discern good from evil?

But I saw a lot as I was growing up. I learned that whenever a person refuses to live according to moral laws, love cannot survive.

Don't allow anything to be used for bad, but let it be used only for good.

What, then, can we do? We must return to the moral and spiritual foundations of our country and grapple with the consequences of our original sin.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

W ?yciu interesowa?y go przede wszystkim mi?osne podboje, dybanie na niewie?ci? cnot? i jej niszczenie.

The central problem with our world is not that it is wicked but that we allow it to be wicked.

The world, when it comes down to it, is just the schoolyard writ large. Being on the side of truth and virtue doesn't help anyone. You have to be on the side of popularity and power!

The beauty industry does nothing but proclaim that women are never good enough and must always be changing their image. Why? Because that's how the owners of the beauty industry make higher profits. They don't care about women. They care about profit. They're delighted to make women neurotic and depressed about their appearance if it generates more dollars for their own bank accounts. What kind of morality is that? What kind of society is that? What kind of beauty is that?

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible,' he said.

I have become solitary," wrote the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "because to me the most desolate solitude seems preferable to the society of wicked men which is nourished only in betrayals and hatred.

Knowing when not to take an item, however deflating, is mandatory for a thief expecting career longevity.

So there had better be a good damned reason for [war], because even if it is good, it is still damned.

You priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing, and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had it right, too – it is a false peace to be over-forgiving.

?nsanlar?n kötülükleri ya?ar tunçta, yazar?z erdemlerini suya." - Shakespeare

En son kimden "Kabahat bende" laf?n? duyduk? Sartre'?n "?nsan, do?as? ve seçimlerinden tümüyle sorumludur" demesinin üzerinden yüzlerce y?l geçmi? sanki. Bugün tam tersi geçerli. ?nsanlar ne do?alar?ndan ne de seçimlerinden sorumlular.

Physics, yes? Physics. This is physics. It's also politics. The two are sometimes painfully difficult to keep apart. Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

Rogers held that there is not one fact or piece of data that will ever make war (or even preparing for war) morally permissible.

Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - Duck

Why do people do evil things? Messenger's answer stunned me, "Why did you?

Superpowers," he said to himself, "don't always make you a superhero.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much."