Quotes About Morality

Neither of you ever let fear put chains on your conscience.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Y bien, ¿le gustaría el corredor de la muerte? Se lo merecía, decidió Jeffers. Estupidez en Primer Grado.

Imaginó alguna vez Mark Zuckerberg que su red social serviría para que alguien decidiera si matar o no a alguien? —Sonrió—. Es un poco como preparar una cita a ciegas, ¿no?»

um nicht in einem völkerrechtswidrigen, unmoralischen Krieg zu kämpfen." "Der Reporter

Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Motel Hell is a black comedy about hypocrisy, about the way in which every person, even serial killers like Farmer Vincent, tell themselves little lies to get through the day. It's easier to do terrible things, one concludes, when you believe you're doing good.

I can at least comfort myself with the idea that whatever Ive done Ive helped to nail a lie, and Im coming to think that lying is among the worst of all human failings. Next to actual killing. And experience has made us almost equally good at both of them. I have killed many people and seen many more killed on my orders, Jogajong said. It is what must be paid to buy what we want. What weve been told we want, by liars more skilled than ourselves.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

Christian religion defines morality by a belief system based on a master-slave relationship, and rooted in resentment of the raw beauty and power of the life force.

People are basically good.

The way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation.

And then Ginny jumping in with, "So Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are both drowning in the pool right in front of you, and you know there's only going to be a minute or two before one or both of them goes under. Here's the question: What kind of sandwich do you make?

are not punished for their sins, but by

John Lescroart

There are no objective values.

The difficulty of seeing how values could be objective is a fairly strong reason for thinking that they are not so

In Plato's theory the Forms, and in particular the Form of the Good, are eternal, extra-mental, realities. They are a very central structural element in the fabric of the world. But it is held also that just knowing them or 'seeing' them will not merely tell men what to do but will ensure that they do it, overruling any contrary inclinations.

It is a hard fact that cruel actions differ from kind ones, and hence that we can learn, as in fact we all do, to distinguish them fairly well in practice, and to use the words 'cruel' and 'kind' with fairly clear descriptive meanings; but is it an equally hard fact that actions which are cruel in such a descriptive sense are to be condemned?

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.