Quotes About Morality

Truth is the most elegant and wonderful thing in the world, until you use it as a weapon to deliberately hurt others. Be truthful at all times but never be brutal and venomous. Always be nice to people, no matter what others say or do. Cheers!

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?" "Wouldn't I know which one I was?" "Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.

She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that.

Have to be honest with you Darquesse, I cannot feel that. That must be one of your special abilities, because to me, it looks like you just killed a whole bunch of people for no reason." "Oh," said Darquesse. "That's so sad

There is no heroism in war – there are simply things that need to be done.

We'll give you half now, you give us the gold, and then we give you the other half." "There are three babies. How do you give me half?" He shrugged. "Chop a baby in two." "You know, even for a goblin, that's disturbed.

Drive over a few of the little brats. That'll scare them off." "I... I don't think I can do that, sir... I just don't think we're capable of going that fast, sir.

Wreath told me what the Passage is." "Oh?" "They're going to kill three billion people to stop the other three billion from ever dying.

This is preposterous. Why would I lie? I'm not a criminal. The criminals are the ones in the cells." - Mien "The prisoners are the ones in the cells," Skulduggery corrected. "Criminals can be anyywhere.

How stupid am I, huh? Boom, just like that, I'm cut off and now I can see the whole thing. You've never done anything for anyone else. You've never inconvenienced yourself purely for someone else's benefit. The rest of us have. It's what makes us good people. You? You've saved the world, but you're not a good person.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul." Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.