Quotes About Morality

Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes

He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.

Morality fell with society

People are not punished for their deeds, but by them~

Always let your conscience be your guide is advice of doubtful value. Conscience must be, among other things, a list of sayings, an anthology of quotations and precepts. Where did they come from, and who first wrote them on my empty slate, and why?

What should we mean by intelligence? It is not a question of fact, for there is no fact; it is a moral question. There is a shouldness in it.

Moral and ethical questions have no validity in Total War except in as far as their maintenance or destruction contributes towards ultimate Victory. Expediency, not morality, is the sole criterion of human conduct in Total War.' Dennis Wheatley, Total War, 1941

What conveys a right, and why should humans, alone on all the planet, have them?

It came from Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. "There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.

What she likes and doesn't, when she isn't lying the lazy lie of decency.

God only knew what the eleven-year-old might confess to me about the things I was right now doing wrong.

It's a grand, luxurious act of self-deceit, an outright lie, that claim of Kant's: As far as nonhumans are concerned, we have no direct duties. All exists merely as means to an end. That end is man.

She has followed back roads from Las Vegas, capital of clueless sinners, toward Salt Lake, capital of cunning saints.

If nobody's losing money or getting hurt, the law doesn't give a fuck.

How ethical is it to let these animals go a long time before they die?

The MP's hunted antelope with machine guns for fresh meat and for sport. Groves authorized only cold showers for his troops; their isolated duty would win them eventual award for the lowest VD rate in the entire U.S. Army.

All war is immoral. Logically, the 100 percent pacifist has the only impregnable position.

people are more likely to refrain from violence out of preference for a nonviolent existence than they are to do so out of fear of punishment.

of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

Now we are all sons of bitches.' 

religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

I have often wondered why people never want to put a stone monument of the Eight Beatitudes on a courthouse lawn. Then I realize that the Eight Beatitudes of Jesus would probably not be very good for any war, any macho worldview, the wealthy, or our consumer economy.

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more it is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for, the very One who created you.