Quotes About Morality

he had nothing to give, except maybe Mein Kampf, and there was no way he'd give such propaganda to a young German girl. That would be like the lamb handing a knife to the butcher.

Qué gran maldad puede encubrir la prolongación de una vida.

Raskolnikov once said: "When reason fails, the devil helps!

But Hans Junior wasn't finished. He stepped closer and said, "You're either for the Führer or against him—and I can see that you're against him. You always have been." Liesel watched Hans Junior in the face, fixated on the thinness of his lips and the rocky line of his bottom teeth. "It's pathetic—how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness — a savagery without stain.

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.

He tortured, not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction.

In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's your sins of the heart (real or imagined), it's your wives, your children, and how things went with them.

Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. It's not in the mere narrative arrangement of good and bad that morality makes itself felt. It can be there in every sentence

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

Twiss. Free of vice and gossip and idle tales." As the indicator arrow hit "B," Joseph switched to

Nothing could persuade him to accept the possibility of compromise with evil at the expense of others, or to abandon his faith in the rule of law, the supremacy of elected Parliaments and the rights of the individual.

To be good is noble; to teach others how to be good is nobler, & no trouble.

El deseo de una ética se vuelve tanto más apremiante cuanto más aumenta, hasta la desmesura, el desconcierto el hombre, tanto el manifiesto como el que permanece oculto.

it's never wrong time to do the right thing

Ce qui m'effraie, ce n'est pas l'oppression des méchants; c'est l'indifférence des bons.

If there is to be peace on earth and good will toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe, and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations.

The time is always right to do what is right.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.