Quotes About Morality

There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.

Two-Face was right. You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

He liked the woods and the iron-cold air, and he liked snapping the rifle to his shoulder as the game came into view. But he did not like the killing, the thing lying there, bewildered, eyes open.

A hand has five fingers each one of unequal length so also in life its good to follow the moral of the goldilocks and the three bears story-my opinion.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?

Only an atheist can be a good Christian.

It is infinitely more appealing to be a criminal than a bourgeois.

When I saw several thugs attack a lone man, or a larger man a small one, or even when a mastiff attacked a toy Pomeranian, not virtue but plain disgust upset my insides. This early variety of defeatism later became an obsolete trait—damaging me in today's world.

Strangely enough, no one can simply go ahead and do another person harm. You first have to convince yourself that the other has deserved it.

Lo que no perdono en mi época no es lo de ser cobarde, sino tener que construir cada día la coartada de la propia cobardía difamando a los héroes

It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.

If, to win, we have to set up the gallows in the public square, I would prefer to lose.

Ceux qui croient à l'efficacité révolutionnaire, libératrice, de la répression et de la férocité ont la même mentalité arrierée que les juristes qui croient qu'on peut éviter le délit et moraliser le monde par le moyen des peines sévères.