Quotes About Morality

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Law, lastly, stands between politics and morality.

the difference between how a person treats the powerless versus the powerful is as good a measure of human character as I know.

The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus insignis ad deformitatem puer esto). (Modern moral philosophers, like Joseph Fletcher and Princeton University's Peter Singer, advocate the same thing.)

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

What does finding the Horn count if I abandon Egwene to this? If I did that, the Horn couldn't save me. The Creator couldn't save me. I would damn myself.

The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.

It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn't all right to let them make you like they are.

That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.

Is it betrayal to betray a traitor?

As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.

The determination of a man set upon justice is a thing not lightly ignored.

If we do violence to oppose evil, soon we would be no different from what we struggle against. It is with the strength of our belief that we fight the Shadow.

Do what you must, then pay the price for it, was what she had been taught, by the same women who had marked off those forbidden areas. It was refusal to admit the debt, refusal to pay, that often turned necessity to evil.

There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance

More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness.

No todas las personas podían ser igualmente valientes, pero la cobardía era despreciable.

If anyone could break any rule they chose, do whatever they chose, and escape punishment merely by doing some good to balance it, the world would be chaos.

She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time.

A man, he'll cheat you—but he'll do it honestly.

the world was not black and white—it wasn't even gray. It was full of colors that sometimes didn't fit into any spectrum of morality.

It is no treason to do what must be done. And even blasphemy can be tolerated for a cause.

Men's armor and women's armor didn't actually look much different, which he found a shame. Mat had asked a Seanchan armorer if certain areas of the female breastplate shouldn't be emphasized, so to speak, and the armorer had looked at him like he was a half-wit. Light, these people had no sense of morality. A fellow needed to know if he was fighting a woman on the battlefield. It was only right.