Quotes about Morality

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Religion and law among our masses must be one and the same," his father said. "An act of disobedience must be a sin and require religious penalties. This will have the dual benefit of bringing both greater obedience and greater bravery.

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do. -Teachings of the Golden Path, Bene Gesserit Archives

I salve my own conscience. I give him the surcease of religion before betraying him. Thus may I say to myself that he has gone where I cannot go.

Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.

The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

The realization that all religions had at least one common commandment: "Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be.