Quotes About Morality

Once you give up your integrity, everything else is a piece of cake. —J. R. Ewing

A sense of sin perfects all sensual contents

a few must die so the rest can live in peace, well, such is the ugly but unavoidable cost of living in a civilized society. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

It is an empty joy to appear better than you are; but a great blessing to be what you ought to be.

I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous.

I keep a box in which I store his artwork and writings, like his response to an assignment in which he has been asked if you should always try your best. "I don't think you should always try your best all the time," he writes, "because, let's say a drug atick asks you for drugs you should not try your best to find him some drugs." Another assignment that goes into the box is

Love cannot exist for long without the dimension of justice.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

That's why anyone claiming morality is fixed is simply ignorant of world history, or even American history, not to mention the state of the world today.

Religion has no positive value.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. —SUSAN B. ANTHONY

If the Bible and other holy books were at all reliable sources of morality, good and bad religious people wouldn't both be able to point to their holy books as guidance and inspiration to support their positions.

When religion demands you refrain from doing something otherwise benign, that's just a provocation to do it more.

Every priest who hears confessions is, by definition, an accessory to ever crime he hears about and does not report to the authorities.

A man got to have a code. --The Wire

When doing the heroic thing, the right thing, conflicts with your personal power, and you choose the right thing over the personal power thing, you have begun to understand what Agape is. It's thankless, it's difficult, yet it's what the greatest songs are sung of.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

This is one of the great charms of Poirot's investigations, for they reveal a world where manners and morals are quite different from today. There are no overt and unnecessary sex scenes, no alcoholic, haunted detectives in Poirot's world. He lives in a simpler, some would say more human, era: a lost England, seen through the admiring eyes of this foreigner, this little Belgian detective.

was Himmler whom the Führer had entrusted with the Final Solution, their breathtaking plan to wipe the Jewish people from the face of the earth. It was Himmler who had the nerve to justify this plan, standing before his SS generals in October 1943 and assuring them that they had "the moral right to destroy this people which wanted to destroy us," to pile up their "corpses side by side" in monuments to the Reich's power.

Any Indian or mixed-blood who shall pay or offer to pay any money or other valuable consideration to the friends or relatives of any Indian girl or woman, for the purpose of living or cohabiting with said girl or woman,

Alberta thought for a moment, and took a live mouse out of her pocket by its tail before dropping it into Wagner's mouth. The bird wolfed the unfortunate creature whole.

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

Honesty needs no approval.