Quotes About Morality

Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.

It is for one's own sake that one does good things.

Now she was happy to be evil, if it meant she could be clean.

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing." "It's

It could give you some tough moments, your word. Could force you into places you didn't want to be, could serve you up puzzles where the right path weren't easy to pick. But it wasn't mean to be easy, it was meant to be right. There were many men always did the easy thing, regardless.

It's what you give out that makes a man, not what you get back.

When it comes to virtue, after all, appearances are everything.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Jesus emphasized again and again that character precedes conduct and that morality is a matter of the heart (5:3–48).

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don't care who gets hurt.

Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street? Aren't the judge and the executioner on the same team?

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did 'em.

God loves man, we are told, but love must be proved by facts, not reasons. If you were in a boat and did not save a drowning man, you would burn in Hell for certain; yet God, in His wisdom, feels no need to use His power to save anyone from a single moment of suffering, and in spite of his inaction He is celebrated and revered.

I think if you cheat in a ethics class then there's really no hope for you.

The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.

if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street?

The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper. Renée wined. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged .

sin, which was another word for 'live.

Then Glenn Beck burned to death on his Internet program, right in front of his chalkboard, burned so hot his glasses fused to his face, and after that most of the news was less about who did it and more about how not to catch it.

There's always a little decency in the worst places . . . and always a little secret selfishness in the best.

Humanity is worse than flies.