Quotes About Morality

One of my pastors says that living right is not complicated; it may be difficult, but it is not complicated.

People who change their values, their ethics, are not trustworthy and should be avoided.

For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.

Human beings seem reluctant to accept that morality is something invented by themselves and so tend to legitimize moral rules by mythologizing their origins:

This is because outward virtue signaling is separate from being a considerate, moral person. Whereas the latter is central for common decency (and is something we should all strive for), the former is just a display of faux morality. One that's designed to offer protection from the mob ever turning on them. It's a protection racket—a form of insurance. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

When those responsible for its security decide that something needs to be done, they're going to do it—without any discussion and in spite of any moral opposition.

There was nothing to be gained in speaking to the evil, and everything to lose.

You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from an animal. In the quiet afterward we know when we've done wrong.

This really isn't fair," Mena said. "What is 'fair'?" asked one of the watchers called Devoth. "I don't know this word.

After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He

Sometimes you have to look at the greater good, no matter what the consequences to yourself might be.

In order to feel remorse, there had to be a gray area, some part of the situation that made you uncertain of your choices. Noah

even the finest examples of men and women are capable of horrific acts under the right circumstances,

I don't know, Mr. Mason," he said at last, "whether evil is like a weed that grows in suitable conditions, or whether it is a condition that occurs in some human beings. Be that as it may, I have no doubt at all that the men who run those cartels are evil, in the deepest, simplest, plainest sense of the word. Evil.

Evil is contagious, Mr. Mason, and it feeds on greed and power.

Again, this exists in people to differing degrees, and it is possible to have someone who is neutral—right in the middle of the spectrum. But Jimmy Palmer isn't neutral. He is about as far down in the dark depths as you can go. He is a sociopath. A psychopath. A man who has no feeling for those of his fellow creatures. He sees his family as his own to do whatever he wants with.

Just because you can do something that may benefit yourself doesn't necessarily make it right to do so.

no matter how much we want to believe that our world is just and fair, it isn't. At least in some cases, the only way to have justice is to leave fairness at the door on the way in.

True freedom is freedom from the illusion of morality, from the belief that there is good and evil. There is only power, Mr. Mason.

After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He had grown up reading cop stories, always seeing how the cops would save the day, watching them rescue the innocent and punish the guilty every week on TV, until he finally knew that he had to be one himself.

Noah, Noah," Monique said. "Crime is nothing. Crime is something that will always be a part of society.

had been a constant source of recrimination and criticism. He measured all people against his own unattainably anal standard. It was a standard which was too pathetically low to be measured, but which through the microscope of his own small mind he saw as perfect. ?But Peter, unencumbered by morality, held nobody to any standard. He knew that where there was no good, there could be no standard.

as I weaved and wended my dappled way toward Jackson Lane, I felt certain nobody here would ever commit an impolite crime, and whatever crimes they did commit, they would never be so vulgar as to get caught.