Quotes about Morality
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
— Cicero
a distinction has gradually sprung up between what is expedient and what is right. But the implication that something can be right without being expedient, or expedient without being right, is the most pernicious error that could possibly be introduced into human life.
— Cicero
they follow nature as the most perfect guide to a good life. Now
— Cicero
The extreme of right is the extreme of wrong.
— Cicero
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
— Margaret Atwood
You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
— Margaret Atwood
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.
— Margaret Atwood
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
— Margaret Atwood
Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.
— Margaret Atwood
But sins must not be overlooked simply because the sinner is skilled.
— Margaret Atwood
It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.
— Margaret Atwood
Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.
— Margaret Atwood