Quotes About Morality

Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

For all the good that Alok Nath had done, being perceived as a father figure, the fact that he was hitting on a girl, who was playing his daughter, made me almost want to throw up.

I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

Modern morality is all about perception.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

I'm a good person and that's what I am at the end of the day.

Il n'y a pas de Dieu, il n'y a pas de morale, rien n'existe de tout ce qu'on nous a enseigné à respecter; il y a une vie qui passe, à laquelle il est logique de demander le plus de jouissance possible, en attendant l'épouvante finale qui est la mort.

After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter.