Quotes About Morality

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race.

Then Cotton quotes Luke 12:48. "To whom much is given, of him God will require the more." Of course there's a catch, Spider-Man. When God is the landlord, Cotton says, "defraud him not of his rent." The price? Obedience.

it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces.

Unleashing a killing spree on Quaker property is a bit of a faux pas

It simply had never occurred to Annie during all her years of child-rearing that terrible things would not happen to her children just because she would not do terrible things to anyone else's.

The thing about a country famous for its bribery is that the people who don't take bribes are very keen you know that about them.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

Whatever lessens suffering in yourself and others, that is right. Whatever increases suffering, that is wrong.

And as the age of godlessness increases, all remnants of morality will disappear, until people will eat the flesh of their own family members and – as they are already doing – engage in sex acts with less discrimination then the hogs and dogs.

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

between human beings there are only two alternatives, either brotherhood or crime.

You can know a man by his devils and the way he gives hurts.

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens. He was talking high-minded balls. Twaddle! I thought. I said, 'Oh? Do you mean that every gas chamber has a silver lining?

So many questions impossible to answer could not be asked about an honest man. Nor perhaps about a sane man.

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.

Nobody should pretend to be always one hundred per cent honest. I wish I knew how to be seventy, sixty per cent." I swore she must be one hundred and ten, two hundred.

It never seems to occur to such criminals that to behave with decency to another human being might also be gratuitous.

And although not convinced by her, I wasn't utterly horrified for the unborn either. To be completely consistent in that kind of economy of souls you would have to have great uneasiness and remorse that wombs should ever be unoccupied; likewise, that hospitals, prisons, and madhouses and graves should ever be full. That wide a spread is too much.

More than human, can you have any use for life? Less than human, you don't either.