Quotes About Morality

Be virtuous and you'll be happy? Nonsense! Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

Klan women and men saw themselves not as bigoted extremists but as good Christians and good patriots joining proudly in a moral crusade.

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

Never let the law interfere with justice.

Music alone is a vital force, an instrument for rescuing the world from its moral and spiritual decay.

A kingdom without justice, he memorably observed, was nothing but a very large band of pirates.

Nothing is True, All is Permitted

Agenbite of inwit. Conscience.

one day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.

A spirit could not be coerced into corruption, it had to be seduced. It had to participate actively. It had to crave.

For to die with honour is far better than to live disgraced.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals people's faith and makes them resent themselves

No matter what occurs in your life, no matter how bad the circumstances seem to be, you must never consider a dishonorable act as a viable alternative.

CHAP. XIX. The Duke Ai asked, saying, 'What should be done in order to secure the submission of the people?' Confucius replied, 'Advance the upright and set aside the crooked, then the people will submit. Advance the crooked and set aside the upright, then the people will not submit.

They thought of themselves as pure and righteous. They had a kind of holy fervor about them, despite which—or perhaps because of which—they were capable of unholy atrocities.

You saved whomever you could, whenever you could, regardless of their character or their relationship to you. You used heroic measures even for the least heroic individuals.

Just tell me this: when did a shipload of criminals, desperadoes, and fugitives become such a bunch of do-gooders?" Inara had the answer. "When their captain showed them how.

But sometimes there's a moral rightness in stupidity. Ever hear of a holy fool?

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

Characters who engage in murder, sadistic cruelty, malignant selfishness or narcissism, dishonorable and dishonest acts, and obsessions with relative frivolities such as political intrigue and playing the game of thrones transgress against not just individuals but society itself.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes and lay back on the pillow. Her hair was falling over her shoulders in snaky curls. Her eye was all black, and her breasts weren't drawn up and pointing up at me, but soft, and spread out in two big pink splotches. She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.

She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night.