613 Quotes About Morals

It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another’s value. It is easier to define yourself as ‘not that,’ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.

No president likes leaks, but it’s worth noting candidate Trump’s path to power was tread on a road of leaks. He didn’t have a problem with leaks then. It’s not a moral position if you only hold it when it applies to you.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

You can’t fundamentally change a person, and some actions are certainties, doomed to be repeated. If fate exists, then it pertains only to people. The fact that we are stubborn is often our undoing.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

I’m just saying that once that have an excuse, people will do anything. They do what they are told, and they take their money and they think it’s all okay because it’s just their job, while their real self is what happens after work, when they’re bouncing a baby on the knee, or writing poems about snowflakes or whatever.

اغلب مردم برای این اخلاقی هستند که هرگز در موقعیت وسوسه آمیزی قرار نگرفته اند

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.

In a kingdom of thieves, the ways of an honest man will always be a crime.