Quotes About Morality

Without debating the usefulness or morality of planned parenthood, it may be verified by observation that any breed which stops its own increase gets crowded out by breeds which expand.

You see, they assumed that Man has a moral instinct." "Sir? I thought—But he does! I have." "No, my dear, you have a cultivated conscience, a most carefully trained one. Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not—and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.

The result is of unique historical importance despite the Archivist's decision to leave in blatant falsehoods, self-serving allegations, and many amoral anecdotes not suitable for young persons.

The quickest way I know to break a person is to give him or her two sets of contradicting values—which is exactly what we do, in modern culture, with our Sunday and Monday moralities. We are taught by Christianity to follow a set of values that are almost entirely disregarded in everyday business life. How is a person to cope?

Since the Unistat primates, like other domesticated hominids, did not know they were primates, all this was explained by a ferocious amount of ink excretions invoking Morality and Ideology, the twin gods of domesticated primatedom.

The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.

Once formulated, "morality" serves as not only a check on genetic drift but a brake against Circuit III innovation. The shamans, priests etc. define which ideas are "moral" and which are "immoral." Anything new — anything that will break the tribal cycle, i.e., take us out of cyclical mythic "time" into linear, progressive, revolutionary "time" — is usually defined, very quickly, as "immoral.

Once again, it appears that the materialist model of mechanical consciousness covers some but not all experience, and it excludes precisely that part of experience which makes us human, esthetic, moral and responsible beings. One may suspect that this is why the materialist age has become increasingly inhuman, ugly, amoral and blindly irresponsible.

An eye for an eye, Seamus said, Do you know that way of it, doctor? An eye for an eye, we say. An eye for an eye—it's our whole law and religion. An eye for an eye, until we all go fooken blind.

The obedient always think about themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.

I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don't always succeed, but I try. I'm trying now and I'm going to keep at it.

The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and

Robert B. Parker

The rich really are very different," Tyler Costigan was saying. "Especially if they are also unscrupulous." ... "They have always gotten what they wished, and after a while they think they are supposed to. If they have a problem they hire someone to solve it. And they become ever more contemptuous of people who cannot. They even become contemptuous of people who have problems. And eventually they are contemptuous of everyone and care only about what they want.

You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.

Ten minutes out of the city I made Hawk stop the car and I threw up on the side of the road. When I got back in the car Hawk said, "You shot Leo to protect those whores." I nodded. "Had to be done," Hawk said. "I know." "You'll feel better in a while," Hawk said. "Better than Leo," I said.

Lowery would half kill himself to make an extra dollar, and he'd be perfectly willing to kill any of his employees for another fifty cents. But

It was almost like there was something wicked about growing up.

It was also he who said of Day, "He is, by nature, incapable of allowing injustice to go unchallenged.

Krulak had done the right thing, but there is often a price to pay for doing the right thing.

I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun

Cole stared at the Pinocchio clock, then a small ceramic figurine of Jiminy Cricket a client had given him. Let your conscience be your guide. Everyone needed a Jiminy.

I leaned against the fence and crossed my arms and stared at her. After a while she looked over and said, "Why are you staring at me?" "Because I am the Lord High Keeper of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong, and I am trying to figure out what to do." She blinked at me. "Jiminy Cricket," I said. "He was also Counselor in Moments of Temptation, and Guide Along the Straight and Narrow Path. You need that.

She said, "Oh, Studly." I could see her smile. "The law is not about justice. You know that.