Quotes About Morality

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good.

It's easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I've done it myself. But it isn't religion that's wired that way—it's man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don't they all teach that to do for others feels better than to do for yourself? That someone else's happiness need not mean less happiness for you?

It's easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I've done it myself. But it isn't religion that's wired that way—it's man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class.

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

today we found out what happens when a bad guy with a gun meets a good guy with a gun.

It's easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I've done it myself. But it isn't religion that's wired that way—it's man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class. Don't they all teach that to do for others feels better than to do for yourself? That someone else's happiness need not mean less happiness for you? "Only

In the West you will find men like that, fellows with gentle hands and hard, flat voices. Horses and dogs are instinctively loyal to such fellows, while yellowbellies and equivocators instinctively fear them. They make mediocre husbands, good officers of the law, and top-notch bank robbers.

She wasn't sure good intentions always paved the road to hell, but they for sure weren't the highest standard of medical care. She

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

Folks woke up today to a poisoned world, and some of them won't see any reason to hold back on doing the awful things they've always dreamed of.

With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381

Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.

Pensando bem — disse ela —, a maioria das coisas boas surgiu para facilitar o pecado.

addition, it's often hard for fathers to understand how deeply a daughter's perception of her own appearance influences her perception of her own worthiness, health, or morality.

It has everything to do with your world view- your basic set of beleifs and whether or not those beliefs include God.

An act of evil is the death of wonder

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

Euthanasia is against my religion so I decided to murder her.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

I can't stand a damn liar and have no respect for one. But an artful exaggerator always gets my full attention and my undying respect. —Nat Love

Sometimes he felt as if he had stepped into an alternate universe where the old laws of nature and what was right and wrong did not apply.

But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.

Marvin: – La necrofilia ce l'abbiamo sepolta dentro. Uno dei miei libri, Storia della tortura e della morte, parla delle atrocità che abbiamo commesso in nome della giustizia e della vendetta. Spesso erano peggiori dei crimini originali. L'uomo è un animale sanguinario.

Problem with this world is we've lost the idea of shame and guilt. We need a little of that. No one thinks they ever do bad anymore. They just do different.