Quotes about Ethics

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.

Without malefactors the world of the righteous is robbed of all meaning.

Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian. Let's go then. Hump up there, stranger, and let's go get hung.

All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it. Yessir. But there aint but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be. Yessir.

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.

Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing