Quotes About Morality

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it made me very sad.

Christians are not under the authority of Moses as their lawgiver.29 They are under the authority of Christ, the new lawgiver. Christians are not under the Old Covenant and do not use it to define their moral absolutes any more than they use it to define their diet. They are under the New Covenant, and it defines everything in their life and worship either by clear precept or personal application of a principle.

They are never called or treated as 'the unchanging moral law of God' either here in the Exodus passage that introduces them or anywhere else in Scripture. To call the Ten Commandments the 'moral law of God' is to use a purely theological term2 that is without any textual support from either this introductory passage or any other passage in Scripture.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman.

I hate the man who builds his nameOn ruins of another's fame.

A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is feed, Sir, he steals your whole estate.

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...

people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...

no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

when we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls...

the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...

family. Boomer deserves better than a bullet. I don't care what he did, he deserves better than that.

We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes the story so desirable to the general population. They want to believe that karma works and the bad guys are always defeated in the end. But in a world where no one thinks they are the bad guy and everyone plays the victim, it is harder and harder to find the black-and-white of a situation. We are all the hero and we are all the monster it just depends on which way you look at it.

Sunshine and warm water seem to me to have full meaning only when they come after winter's bite; green is not so green if it doesn't follow the months of brown and gray. And the scheduled inevitable death of green carries its own exhilaration; in that change is the promise of all the rebirths to come, and the deaths, too. ... Without the year's changes, for me, there is little morality.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

From those great eyesThe soul has fled:When faith is lost, when honor dies,The man is dead!

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And, close as sin and suffering joined, We march to Fate abreast.