Quotes About Morality

the blade and began, very carefully, to make a shallow incision in the neck of a frog he had pinned, through its splayed feet, to the untreated wood.

A time before Flanders and Auschwitz had shown that, given the means of killing and the opportunity to use them, the species, far from being a pinnacle in creation, was actually lower on the scale than all others in its genus or family.

Women tend to act heroically within their own moral universe, regardless of whether anyone else knows about it - donating more kidneys to nonrelatives than men do, for example. Men, on the other hand, are far more likely to risk their lives at a moment's notice, and that reaction is particularly strong when others are watching, or when they are part of a group.

It's revealing, then, to look at modern society through the prism of more than a million years of human cooperation and resource sharing. Subsistence-level hunters aren't necessarily more moral than other people; they just can't get away with selfish behavior because they live in small groups where almost everything is open to scrutiny.

Unlike criticism, contempt is particularly toxic because it assumes a moral superiority in the speaker.

Killing seems to traumatize people regardless of the danger they're in or the perceived righteousness of their cause. Pilots of unmanned drones, who watch their missiles kill human beings by remote camera, have been calculated to have the same PTSD rates as pilots who fly actual combat missions in war zones.

Subsistence-level hunters aren't necessarily more moral than other people; they just can't get away with selfish behavior because they live in small groups where almost everything is open to scrutiny.

8 Better a little with righteousness than great income with injustice. 9 A man's heart plans his way, but the Lorddetermines his steps.

What do you think of God," I asked, "for testing the loyalty of Job?" "I think it is wrong for the strong to test the weak, though it is natural for the weak to test the strong.

The physical world is morally neutral and may be known relatively well by an objective observer; but the invisible spiritual realm comprises beings both good and evil, and the "objective" observer has no means of distinguishing one from the other unless he accepts the revelation which the invisible God has made of them to man.

he must cook and eat the child.

Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.

Contenerse es casi como robar.» Neil Young

dac? nu e?ti dispus s? ai empatie pentru ideile persoanei pe care vrei s-o serve?ti, e ca ?i cum ai fura.

You don't have to fuck people over to survive.

Dosa bukanlah apa yang biasanya dikira orang, pikirnya; dosa bukanlah karena mencuri dan berbohong. Dosa adalah kalau orang menginjak-injak kehidupan orang lain secara brutal dan sama sekali tidak peduli akan luka-luka yang ditimbulkannya.

Lako je umreti za dobro i lepo; teško je umreti za bedno i pokvareno - to je ono što sam tada odjednom shvatio.

Greh, razmišljao je, nije ono što se obi?no misli da jeste; greh nije krasti i govoriti laži. Greh je kada ?ovek surovo gazi život drugog ?oveka , ne misle?i na to kakve rane ostavlja za sobom.

Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right.

Da bi postigao svoj cilj ?ak i ?avo citira Bibliju.

rape or seduction, he'd take either

Catherine Le Vendeur, he asked sententiously, have you known this man carnally? No father, Catherine answered. But, with your kind permission, I would very much like to.

You have to take a stand when things aren't right.

When people want to insult a man, they cast slurs upon his courage. But the worst they can say about a woman is to impugn her chastity.