Quotes About Morality

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.

Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name?

Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation?

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations.

Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.

Zaten vereceÄŸim ÅŸeyleri çalmak m? istiyorsun?

Y la lealtad es un valioso lujo. Se puede vender, pero no comprar. —

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. —FROM "CONVERSATIONS WITH MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

Nothing about religion is simple," she warned.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? -Bene Gesserit Council Proceedings: Archives #XOX232

Thou shalt not disfigure the soul. - The Orange Catholic Bible

Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do.

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do. -Teachings of the Golden Path, Bene Gesserit Archives

I salve my own conscience. I give him the surcease of religion before betraying him. Thus may I say to myself that he has gone where I cannot go.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis [...] You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.