Quotes About Morality

The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.

You bite on reflex, and then your conscience bites you.

Gods, when did we discover how easy it is to be cruel to one another?

I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.

Listen, if you walk into a whorehouse and find yourself getting sucked off, it's because you put some money on the counter, not because the gods transported a pair of lips to your cock.

Of course they were your friends, Locke. They were your very good friends. Because they're going to teach you that when you kill someone, there are consequences. It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.

It is one thing to kill in a duel, to kill in self-defense, to kill for vengeance. It is another thing entirely to kill simply because you are careless.

A lynching always makes a town look bad," Alan Brownfield said. "But a card cheat often makes it look worse.

Q: Who makes more money, a drug dealer or a hooker? A: A hooker, because she can wash her crack and reuse it.

Yeah. The crazy people. The ones who changed after the solar storms." "We've all changed." She couldn't argue with that, [...] "You may have noticed that we - that is, if you are one of us - are no different. Morally, you could make a case that ours is a greater sin, because we're aware of our violent actions." [...] "You're aware you're giving a morality lecture to a woman you've tied to a chair, right?

People assume that if they use higher mathematics and computer models they're doing the Lord's work," observed Buffett's longtime partner, the cerebral Charlie Munger. "They're usually doing the devil's work.

A good book appeals to what is best in us....

As with anything worth achieving, the road to all-encompassing evil has no shortcuts.

We don't have to be bad forever. We can fight our urges. We can choose to be good.

Horror is the result of sin. Sin gives way to temptation. Temptation is the number-one weapon of the Devil.

Four: Corruption of the Innocent. That's you guys.

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

You lose more of yourself than you redeemDoing the decent thing.

War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

Money has a long and sinister reach. It slips into the system, changes hands And starts to eat away at the foundations Of everything we stand for.

My flesh was not for feasting on

Let me educate you In one short sentence. War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

Candour before canniness. Doing the right thing And not just saying it.

You can't, friend, have your palm greased and expect To get away clean. Everything comes out.