#moral

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #moral




Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.


Clarence Darrow


#honesty #idealistic #moral-clarity #success #successful

Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.


Jodi Picoult


#jodi-picoult #moral #perfect-match #ran #food

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.


Gary Steiner


#humanity #morality #speciesism #life

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.


Jodi Picoult


#obsession #love

Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.


Glen Cook


#morality #cooking

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.


Caitlín R. Kiernan


#morality #pragmitism #men

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return.


Viktor E. Frankl


#honor #morality #sacrifice #survival #war

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.


Sydney J. Harris


#personal-growth #love

War does not decide who is right but who is left.


George Bernard Shaw


#war #morals

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba


Khaled Hosseini


#war #morals