Quotes About Morality

Watch a child die for the lack of a few coins. Do that, and you might start to understand a few things, like the difference between a theft and a crime.

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

Why not?" she exclaimed. Translation: If you can have sex with a drug offender, why can't I have sex with the salutatorian?

I'm saying you would not be comfortable with casual sex. Or whatever we're talking about here. The National Honor Society version of prostitution.

This is because I'm a good person," I assured Doofus. "I am going to heaven, though hopefully not by way of the convent.

Cheating is like a girl's maidenhead. Doesn't matter if she's done it once or a hundred times; she's ruined just the same.

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

he'd won by playing dirty—worse than losing.

Holding my phone, looking out at twinkling Lake Michigan, I understood with sudden clarity that doing the right thing—being right—gets you nothing in this world. It's the sinners everyone loves: the flailers, the scramblers, the bumblers. There was nothing sexy about getting it right the first time. Fuck Sasha, I thought.

Holding my phone, looking out at twinkling Lake Michigan, I understood with sudden clarity that doing the right thing—being right—gets you nothing in this world. It's the sinners everyone loves: the flailers, the scramblers, the bumblers. There was nothing sexy about getting it right the first time.

You better have had a baby, killed someone, or slept with a pure. Those are your three options. Anything less is unsuitable.

He alone had the courage to do what was right.

That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

She'd been taught all her life not to attack humans, but knocking them unconscious with tranquilizer guns was more of a gray area.

It might feel better to give to someone you know than a stranger, or to donate to an organization whose story brings a tear to your eye, but that's your brain playing tricks on you. The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes.

Some people do horrible things because of their beliefs, and some people choose beliefs that let them do horrible things.

Your son," I said, "impregnated an underage girl, then got physical with her when she had the audacity to be devastated at the realization that he'd just been using her to get close enough to make a move against Tobias Hawthorne.

Better the devil you know than the one you don't—or is it? Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. All that glitters is not gold. Nothing is certain but death and taxes. There but for the grace of God go I.

Knowing about Eve and letting her be raised by people who treated her as less than? Pretending that our family owed Toby's daughter nothing? There's nothing honorable about that." Grayson shook. "Any of it.

I could understand why my mother's mother had called Tobias Hawthorne's fortune blood money. Had he left it to me in part out of guilt?

Some people weren't worth the breath it took to shoot them down.

Wat is onze regel over smerige spelletjes ook alweer? - Nash Smerige spelletjes bestaan niet, zolang je maar wint. - Avery

The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes

Als je iemand dood wilt hebben, vind ik dat je op zijn minst het fatsoen moet hebben het zelf te doen, en het goed te doen.