Quotes About Morality

What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise

One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try and predict the stock market... and then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that.

Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.

A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.

Platão havia chegado a compreender algo que os modernos reformadores e revolucionários políticos são incapazes de compreender: que uma reforma não pode ser realizada por um líder bem intencionado que recrute os seus seguidores entre as mesmas pessoas cuja confusão moral é a fonte da desordem.

Omul nu este nevoit sa fie partas la greselile epocii in care traieste

calcul serait partiel, car il y a des avortements

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the one you don't want to fuck while pretending he's the one you do. That's called fidelity. That's called monogamy. That's called civilization and its discontents.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.

Patriarchal castration has two forms: captivity and possession. In captivity, the ego remains totally dependent upon the father as the representative of collective norms—that is, it identifies with die lower father and thus loses its connection with the creative powers. It remains bound by traditional morality and conscience, and, as though castrated by convention, loses the higher half of its dual nature.

the group and group-consciousness were dominant…[the individual] was not an autonomous, individualized entity with a knowledge, morality, volition, and activity of its own; it functioned solely as a part of the group, and the group with its superordinate power was the only real subject.

No man can claim that he is absolutely in the right or that a particular thing is wrong because he thinks so, but it is wrong for him so long as that is his deliberate judgment. It is therefore meet that he should not do that which he knows to be wrong, and suffer the consequence whatever it may be.

Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.

If there is no personal God,everything is permissablel, and if God exists,everthing is possible.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

ThunderClan warriors don't kill unless they have to

I know I did the right thing, but no one would ever understand.

It's not his last life," she rasped, "and even if it were, I couldn't kill him." "Why not? StarClan would honor you for it." Fireheart could not believe her words. The name Brokenstar had always made this old she-cat bristle with rage. Yellowfang dragged her gaze from Brokenstar and looked at Fireheart. Her eyes clouded with pain and grief as she murmured, "He is my son.

What's the point of knowing the warrior code if all you do is ignore what it says?

Power is neither good or evil, it just depends on how you choose to use it.-Rock, cats of the clans