Quotes About Morality

Monsters don't just happen. We make them, day by day, choice by choice.

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the same anymore, so what's the point?" ... "Still, I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else.

I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art.

How is it I'm the enemy when she's the other woman? That seems very unfair, doesn't it?

I had a harder time with this dishonesty, because it seemed to speak of something larger. The way he was always out for himself, whatever the cost.

He must not be incapacitated. He must not be killed because he knew very well what they would do with the girl. Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

must not be incapacitated, he must not be killed because he knew very well what they would do with the girl. Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.

I don't think much of oaths that bind good people to do things they know they shouldn't. If someone is committed to a cause, the only oath they need to swear is to do their duty.

A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.

What does it mean to be human, to be good, to be moral, to be all three at once? It means that flawed beings often must choose between two flawed options.

I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

If you hate something, don't you do it too?

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

That I dream, and that my wishes Are to do what's right, since we Even in dreams should do what's fitting.

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money

Young people are not tabulae rasae. They have a sense of right and wrong. But if they're repeatedly exposed to certain themes, they are more likely to pick them up, to internalize them and have them become part of their sexual scripts.

There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.

She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.