Quotes About Morality

Just because one was poor was not a reason – or an excuse – to live without law.

Nynaeve shook her head. 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

Abraham Lincoln: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It is hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I have done." Jeffrey Dahmer 

He had also by this time begun to indulge in cannibalism, believing that his victims would live on inside him if he consumed their flesh.

You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.

Lo que hemos hecho por sobrevivir... A veces siento que no somos mejores que los muertos.

I'd rather be a piece of work than a piece of shit.

Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we're training him to kill the living?

I said you were a fucking monster! Look at what you made me do! Just fucking look! She was carrying a baby! A BABY! You made me kill a fucking BABY!

Kimse bilerek kötülüÄŸü seçmez. Onu yaln?zca, arad??? iyilik ve mutlulukla kar??t?r?r.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. —MARK TWAIN

The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.

Mindless, stupid men! Playing with the lives of other men

he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.

A corruption of intentions.

When I am billeted a German home even for one night I go out and search for the chickens and rabbits or pets and give them water and food if possible. Generally the family has pulled out too rapidly to care for such things. I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it.

I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it."7

A leader, or those who aspire to that role, regardless of whether in the public or the private sector, must have integrity.

It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.

The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that is, "quality free," has got to go.

And what is good, and what is not good- need we ask anyone to tell us this things?

Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren't necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.

In the West we nearly all have strong moral intuitions about the wrongness of slavery, child labor, or animal cruelty. But that sure didn't used to be the case. Their wrongness has become an implicit moral intuition, a gut instinct concerning moral truth, only because of the fierce moral reasoning (and activism) of those who came before us, when the average person's moral intuitions were unrecognizably different. Our guts learn their intuitions.