Quotes About Morality

Are you kidding?" said Girdler. "Politicians would sell their daughters to male prisons to hold on to power. As far as I've been able to tell, they're the lowest form of life on the planet." "Lower than pond scum?" asked Heather with a twinkle in her eye. "Comparing them to pond scum is an insult to pond scum," said Girdler emphatically.

Would a coward or a thief remain a coward or a thief, even if his memory slate was wiped clean? Or could he somehow become courageous and noble? Could not knowing you had a history of cowardice allow you to suddenly become brave? Were bravery and altruism learned qualities or innate ones?

Wortzman displayed Nietzsche's words to remind him of the need to cling to his own humanity as tightly as he could, despite the temptations to do otherwise. He turned toward them now, re-reading them as he had done on so many occasions. Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.

In the early days of our ascent, being a prolific liar would have gotten you shunned from the tribe.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions," said Boyd. "So is the road to heaven," she countered. "Which road we might be on is in the eye of the beholder.

The moral: the dimwitted and impulsive might not be able to hold a job or learn algebra, but they sure knew how to screw each other—and reproduce like crazy. The movie took place many generations in the future, after which this reverse evolution had run its inevitable course, resulting in a society largely composed of morons.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you. Wortzman

For the greater good?" screamed Ashley through her tears,

because if she were no longer truly human, how could she judge his humanity?

You know that's not the entire quote," said Knight. "It's, 'Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

kill one man and you're considered a murderer. Wipe out all life on an entire planet, with the exception of the occupants of a wooden ark, and you're considered a god. Still,

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. —Albert Camus

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror.

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

Then we don't deserve to be preserved,

PART 8 "Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche,

A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for ten million dollars. She agrees. He then asks if she would sleep with him for a dollar. She is aghast. "What kind of woman do you take me for?" she asks. To that, the man responds, "We have established what you are, madam. Now we're just haggling over the price.

You know what they say about sinners having more fun. You go to heaven for the air conditioning. You go to hell for the company.

I carry out orders given by the first being who activates me," responded the AI, its directed thoughts now coming at her more quickly, displaying the urgency she had called for. "Provided I deem the being worthy, well-intentioned. A being who ultimately wants to use the power of the cube for constructive, rather than destructive, purposes.

A crooked peace officer is just a damned abomination," McCarthy wrote. "That's all you can say about it. He's ten times worse than the criminal."48

There can he greater, more authentic piety in a man's curses than in the sanctimonious prayers of the religious. As

If there is an abiding theme in The Pursuit of Happiness it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories. How you then grapple with everything life throws in your path—and how your own sense of ethics dictates so much about your dealings with life's larger questions—determines so much. "Character

Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.