Quotes About Moral

The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. She whips a pistol from her knickers. She aims it at the creature's head, And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.

Excuse me for troubling your capraesque lives with this first-ever note of moral unclarity.

Now let me get something straight: you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible - because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. So please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or before you know it you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step downward to complete moral degradation.

I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.

Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.

But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail.

Young man, can you restore my eyesight?" "Sir? Why, no, sir!" "You would find it much easier than to instill moral virtue—social responsibility—into a person who doesn't have it, doesn't want it, and resents having the burden thrust on him.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia—the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death . . . before they breed more hemophiliacs.

Self-interest at its healthiest implicitly recognizes the self-interest of others, and therein lies the possibility of compromise. A rigid moral position admits few compromises.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.

Dodd was able to point out that no one would have crucified an itinerant preacher who went around encouraging people with general moral principles.

the march of technology isn't to be seen in the act of me hijacking Logan's car, but in me knowing that I had to do it.

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that? When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?

there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is variation of theft.

When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing.

Cuando matas a un hombre, le robas la vida, robas el marido a una esposa y el padre a unos hijos. Cuando mientes, le robas al otro el derecho a la verdad. Cuando engañas, robas el derecho a la equidad. ¿Compendes?

Some nasty bitch of a woman from the coven of moral and ethical standards tried to fry Rache the pixy said apparently proud of it. I pixed the Tink-blasted dildo, and Rache's black-arts boyfriend blew her right out the front door. Bam!

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth

Being deluged with trolley problems is one of the professional hazards of modern moral philosophy.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. Now, the Nome King had never tried to be good, so he was very bad indeed.

Of all your associations, it is your relationship with God, your Heavenly Father, who is the source of your moral power.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.