Quotes About Morality

In all, it is important to recognize the complexity and perhaps even unavoidable contradictions that reside within human morality. Its multiple sources and layers can never be applied consistently in all situations, given the messiness and unpredictability of human social life.

Cultural norms do not create morality, only collectivize and objectify it, and institutions may go a step further and sacralize it.

Since one's moral identity is socially constructed, one must always be prepared to justify -both to others and oneself- why one chose one course of action over another. Justification means showing that my actions actually emanated from values that we all share.

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Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

Studies show that most people rate themselves well above average when it comes to ethical behavior. In fact, a newsmagazine poll asked people whom they thought would get to heaven. Bill Clinton was a toss-up, getting 52 percent backing from respondents. Former basketball star Michael Jordan did better, at 62 percent. Mother Teresa topped the two American men with 79 percent. But she was not the highest. That honor went to "yourself," with 87 percent.

It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.… Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

Bannon's strategic view of government was shock and awe. Dominate rather than negotiate. Having daydreamed his way into ultimate bureaucratic power, he did not want to see himself as a bureaucrat. He was of a higher purpose and moral order. He was an avenger. He was also, he believed, a straight shooter. There was a moral order in aligning language and action—if you said you were going to do something, you do it.

Donald Trump became a symbol of the media's own self-loathing: the interest in and promotion of Donald Trump was a morality tale about the media.

Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends' wives into bed.

The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.

there are no devils. Inhumanity is the real evil

They cannot see that our sociological assumption is that such systems must not be allowed to exist, no matter the real or perceived benefits. They are continuing to attempt to fix what we consider unfixable and have abandoned.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path… is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?