Quotes About Morality

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

Well, it's amazing what you can find in this world if you're willing to sleep with people.

I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world – spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss, and Mount McKinley – is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possible sins." --Hey Nostradamus!

Exposing hypocrisy doesn't make you a moral person

I wish I knew how bad I could become. I wish I could get a printout that showed me exactly how susceptible I was to a long list of sins. Gluttony: 23 percent susceptible. Envy: 68 percent susceptible. Lust: 94 percent susceptible. That kind of thing.

Remember: Condoms promote licentiousness, so reconsider before using.

The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.

There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. "I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.

At what point in evolution did man acquire the knowledge of good and evil, and thus the capacity to be damned? In this light, the story of Adam and Eve takes on deeper significance. It is a parable of evolution.

Servandae vitae mendacium.

the only person worse than a liar is a hypocrite.

No crazier than killing Vietcong or packing explosives under some poor bastard's hull

The divide between the wealthy and everyone else is a false dichotomy—and one that obscures the real problem: there are many wicked people in the world, rich and poor. That is the real divide—between those who strive to do good, and those who strive only for themselves. Money magnifies the harm the wealthy can do, of course, allowing them to parade their vulgarity and malfeasance in full view of the rest of us.

Our leaders are morally bankrupt, shameless hypocrites, feigning piety but devoid of real spirituality.

The purpose of interrogating at night has more to do with torture than law enforcement.

Do you know, I've always believed there's no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written—that's all.

we've come to understand sin as a kind of moral failing, but that interpretation actually comes from the power structures of the church and religious authorities. If you can convince somebody that they are inherently impure and that there is a mistake at the center of their being, then sin becomes a wrongdoing that deserves blame.

It is easier to commit murder than to justify it.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.

From a just fraud God turneth not away.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.