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Quotes About Morality

Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We
~ Anne Rice
Ma negli indemoniati ci credeva >>. « Quella è un'idea molto più accettabile» rispose immediatamente il vampiro. «Chi ha smesso di credere in Dio o nel bene continua lo stesso a credere nel diavolo. Non so perché. No, anzi, lo so: il male è sempre possibile. E il bene è eternamente difficile.»
~ Anne Rice
of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life Ã¢â'¬Â¦ every second of it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is all we have.
~ Anne Rice
That is one of the worst aspects of evil, that it always involves the death of possible good, always proceeds from the destruction of something that might have been so much better.
~ Anne Rice
De ce te face asta la fel de rau ca oricare vampir? Nu exista gradatii ale raului? E raul cumva o prapastie periculoasa in care cadem dupa primul pacat, prabusindu-ne in adancuri?
~ Anne Rice
Love her sins, follow the path with her, make her evil your evil and you will do no evil.
~ Anne Rice
I wanted to feel morally safe, which I would never feel again.
~ Anne Rice
If you live by your conscience you do what you want.
~ Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
I go out an honest man, but you stay in a rogue.
~ Anne Somerset
Many people shared the view expressed by the diarist Samuel Pepys 'that he that doth get a wench with child and marries her afterward, it is as if a man should shit in his hat and then clap it upon his head'.2
~ Anne Somerset
She should feel sick. Horrified, stunned. But the horrible truth was, she felt fine. He killed. He killed to protect her. And some ancient, atavistic streak inside her wanted to preen and purr. She was one sick puppy.
~ Anne Stuart
He didn't have much of a conscience left, but what remained seemed to belong to Bryony.
~ Anne Stuart
One shouldn't lust after an innocent.
~ Anne Stuart
He wasn't sure why or how, but he… cared about her. He could be the worst possible bastard, but something stopped him from being that callous, and the thought disturbed him. Was he growing soft? Becoming kind?
~ Anne Stuart
it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.
~ Anne Tyler
Being powerful and successful on earth through evildoing was not a true mark of superiority.
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
~ Annie Dillard
If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Eskimo earnestly, did you tell me?
~ Annie Dillard
I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany.
~ Annie Dillard
Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?
~ Annie Dillard
The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Let's kill a rabbit," Col says when he wakes up.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Do what you think is right and apologize later.
~ Scott Wilson
Öylesine s?n?rlanm???z ki kendi kayg?lar?m?zla, sürekli dönüp baÅŸa geliyoruz, öyle ki art?k doÄŸru ile yanl???, yasad??? hevesle en saf ideal aras?ndaki fark? bile ay?rt edemiyoruz. İngmar Bergman
~ Sean Penn