Quotes About Morality

And it seems to me, Miss O'Breen, that to forswear mercy is to forswear humanity. If to destroy evil we take up its very weapons, we shall learn in time that all we have destroyed is the best in ourselves. [Jonadab Evans]

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.

What amazes me is how many people are happy for Saddam to stay. They ask why we don't get rid of Mugabe, why not the Burmese lot. Yes, let's get rid of them all. I don't because I can't, but when you can you should.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

Thomas Aquinas puts it nicely when he says, "Every time someone sins, they're sinning under the guise of good.

Bob Neuwirth: In his depravity, Lou was dignified. Dignified depravity.

How do men convince themselves that others must die so they might live?

Every part of him wants to scream: is this not wrong? But here it is right.

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then.

But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.

How do you ever know that you are doing the right thing?

Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They are what separate the civilized man from the barbarian.

Disgrace is not to fall but to lie.

Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?

These numbers, they're more than numbers. Do you understand?" "But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.