morality Quotes

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.