Quotes About Morality

If a good man does nothing when confronted with a moral wrong, what is lost?

All three cops stood there, reaching deep within themselves, ensuring that whatever moral substance they safeguarded in their most secret corners remained untouched as they looked upon the outrage.

Morality's just comfort food -- it holds no meaning outside of our minds.

HUGS, another one of the many benefits of not being a nihilistic, psychopathic automaton.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. These are cool, Dan decided. Maybe I could- No, Dan, Amy said. You can't collect human bones. Awww.

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.

Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. "Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names…well, it usually says more about them than it does about us. And you , Percy, are my favorite son.

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

Genius does not excuse evil.

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Have you completely made up for all the bad things you've done? No. But you keep adding to the good things column. That's all any of us can do.

It doesn't seem right? Another part of him wondered, Since when do I worry about what's right?

A little secret, Magnus. There is no good and evil. There's only capable and incapable. I am capable.

Don't throw that good and evil stuff at me. That's not even a Norse concept. Are you 'good' because you kill your enemies, but your enemies are 'bad' because they kill you? What sort of logic is that?

We are servants of Ma'at—order and justice. We don't kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

Beautiful people never lie.

Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma'at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

El denominador común del liderazgo, es la integridad.

el fundamento del liderazgo es el carácter; no el carisma, ni los estudios o los talentos, sino el carácter.

None of us are immune to temptation.

It was war itself that was evil, not men.