Quotes About Morality

Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.

we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.

Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do

Zou het onverbloemde egoïsme de kern van het leven zijn? Wie wenst te voelen wat het leven is moet zich ontdoen van zijn verantwoordelijkheden en verplichtingen. Al is het maar voor even. Leven alsof de ander niet meer is dan een decorstuk. Is dat echt zo veel eenzamer, zoveel slechter dan leven alsof de ander altijd en overal een moreel appèl op je kan doen waartegen je geen nee kunt zeggen?

Liberty to have any meaning had to be based on law, and law in its turn on morality: that is, on justice. For Burke brought to the French Revolution the historic English touchstone of every political pretension: its compatibility with fair and kindly dealing. "Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice," he wrote, "neither is safe.

Good men were not to be made merely by laws which relied for their sanction on force but only by religion and morality, which appealed to the conscience. Only when the people, he wrote, had emptied them-selves of all the lust of selfish will—and without religion it was impossible they should—could absolute power be safely entrusted to the State.

other words they were men and women. Frederick the Great might correspond with Voltaire, but he left his subjects cowed and stupid—"one cane to every seven men—and his neighbours, who had suffered from his enlightened aggressions, fearful and suspicious. Kings with the power of reason were not uncommon, but they lacked morality. Moreover they were too often succeeded by half-wits and weaklings. Reason was not hereditary.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity—the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.

Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were threatened. I'm the tiebreaker.

harsh verdict of the great philosopher Lucretius: all religions were fundamentally immoral, because the superstitions they peddled wrought more evil than good.

a man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality.

could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery?

Yaln?zca zaman?n derman olabileceÄŸi baz? ÅŸeyler vard? hayatta. Kötüler yok edilebilirdi, ancak akl? kar??m?? iyi birine hiçbir ÅŸey yap?lamazd?.

When no one lacks anything, there is no point in stealing.

The first was a completely reliable oral contraceptive: the second was an equally infallible method—as certain as fingerprinting, and based on a very detailed analysis of the blood—of identifying the father of any child. The effect of these two inventions upon human society could only be described as devastating, and they had swept away the last remnants of the Puritan aberration.

We obtained another guinea pig, chloroformed it, and sent it through the transmitter. To our delight, it revived. We immediately had it killed and stuffed for the benefit of posterity. You can see it in the museum with the rest of our apparatus.

Yaln?zca zaman?n derman olaca?? ÅŸeyler vard? hayatta. Kötüler yok edilebilirdi, ancak akl? kar??m?? iyi birine kar?? hiçbir ÅŸey yap?lamazd?.

The Cold Equations

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.