Quotes About Morality

We have moved away from traditional Judeo-Christian values toward a worldview that lets us self-select values based on whether they serve our self-interests. Like a child loose in a candy store, we pick our values, we determine our own fate, we captain our own ship.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

After he killed the farmer's daughter, said the monster, the prince lay down next to her and returned to sleep. When he awoke, he acted out a pantomime should anyone be watching. But also, it may surprise you to learn, for himself. The monster's branches creaked. Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd." He pushes Viola forward again - She calls out from the pain of it - Viola, I think - Viola - I grit my teeth and raise the rifle - I cock it - And I say what's true - "I would kill to save her," I say.

But it's a tradition, as if that alone is reason enough. Slavery and buying your wife were traditions, too.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one.

For who needs devils when you have men?

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

The devil tells the best stories.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

No lo entiendo. ¿Aquí quién es el bueno? —No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo está en algún punto intermedio.

No todos en la vida somos buenos o malos, casi todos estamos en un punto medio

There's always a choice," Viola says by my side. "Oh, people like to say that," the Mayor says. "It makes them feel better.

How can a parson be wrong-thinking but good-hearted? How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?

You're a good boy. I wish you didn't have to be quite so good

If they can snuff out that part of you that's good, the part of you that won't kill, then they win, don't you see? If they can do it to you, they can do it to anyone. And they win. They WIN!

Los reinos tienen los príncipes que se merecen, las hijas de los granjeros mueren sin razón, y algunas veces las brujas son dignas de salvación.

To allow someone, anyone, to suffer is the greatest sin there is.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Conor

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story , the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Doing what's right should be easy.

Pero un cuchillo no es solamente un objeto, ¿verdad? Es una elección entre alternativas. Sí o no, cortar o no cortar, matar o no matar. Un cuchillo recoge la decisión que tomes y la convierte en un hecho real, tangible, que ya no puede remediarse.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween. Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.