Quotes About Morality

Fuck it. All she thinks about these days is whether something'll get her into trouble. Who cares? There was certainly a time when she didn't: and she was a better person then.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

Do you think treachery begins in the deed, my friend?

If good people won't do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.

Sometimes it's possible for a decision to be right and wrong at the same time

The real world didn't well accommodate principles.

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

There's a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.

How can people be punished when they are innocent?

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

If there is a moral in this book, it is not my fault. If there is social relevance, it crept in without alerting me, in which case I would have hit it with a stick." (from preface to a later edition of the novel)

There is no difference, truly, Between a wife of lofty social rank Who treats her body shabbily And a poor wench, other than this: If their behavior's equally amiss The gentle one of highly ranked estate Is still called "lady" in the terms of love And if the other is alone and poor She ends up being called a wench or whore.

prostitutes streamed toward Westminster and, especially, the freewheeling adjacent area of Charing Cross.

Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other. — St. Thomas More

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you might live as you wish. — Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

We have got ethical in so many places I begin to wish I had not given up geography at school.

Ja, we zijn bevrijd van pastoren en hun dwingende moraal, maar nee, we zijn niet vrij, integendeel. Er is een nieuwe moraal met haar eigen hogepriesters, die bovendien meer dwang uitoefenen dan de vorige, omdat ze zich als wetenschappelijk en dus als niet voor discussie vatbaar voordoen. Het enige gebod van die moraal is systematic effectiveness, meteen de mantra van de eerste hogepriester, de manager. De tweede pastoor is de nieuwe psychotherapeut, wiens mantra 'aanpassing' luidt.

Vooruitgang is een moreel oordeel van een wezen dat zichzelf o zo graag in de spiegel bekijkt.

Psychologisch beschouwd is het juister de verklaring voor het huidige profitariaat en individualisme te zoeken in een maatschappij die mensen opvoedt om steeds hun eigen voordeel na te streven, los van en desnoods ten koste van de ander. 'Je leeft maar één keer.

Het is dan ook geen toeval dat Aristoteles zijn visie op kennis uitwerkt in twee boeken die gewijd zijn aan ethiek, want kennis is daaraan ondergeschikt. Waardevrije kennis bestaat niet, evenmin als wetenschap zonder passie.

The road to hell is always paved with good intentions.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.