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“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Snowman

“The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.”
― Edward Gorey

“One day in my pharmacology class, we were discussing the possibility of legalizing marijuana. The class was pretty evenly divided between those that advocated legalizing marijuana and those that did not. The professor said he wanted to hear from a few people on both sides of the argument. A couple students had the opportunity to stand in front of the class and present their arguments. One student got up and spoke about how any kind of marijuana use was morally wrong and how nobody in the class could give him any example of someone who needed marijuana.
A small girl in the back of the classroom raised her hand and said that she didn’t want to get up, but just wanted to comment that there are SOME situations in which people might need marijuana. The same boy from before spoke up and said that she needed to back up her statements and that he still stood by the fact that there wasn’t anyone who truly needed marijuana.
The same girl in the back of the classroom slowly stood up. As she raised her head to look at the boy, I could physically see her calling on every drop of confidence in her body. She told us that her husband had cancer. She started to tear up, as she related how he couldn’t take any of the painkillers to deal with the radiation and chemotherapy treatments. His body was allergic and would have violent reactions to them. She told us how he had finally given in and tried marijuana. Not only did it help him to feel better, but it allowed him to have enough of an appetite to get the nutrients he so desperately needed.
She started to sob as she told us that for the past month she had to meet with drug dealers to buy her husband the only medicine that would take the pain away. She struggled every day because according to society, she was a criminal, but she was willing to do anything she could to help her sick husband. Sobbing uncontrollably now, she ran out of the classroom. The whole classroom sat there in silence for a few minutes. Eventually, my professor asked, “Is there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?â€� Not one person raised their hand.”
― Daniel Willey

“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.”
― William S. Burroughs, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

“The new dumb, is now wisdom.”
― Anthony Liccione

“How do they find out with the experiments?'

'...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.'

'But isn't that unkind to the animal?'

'Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.”
― Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs

“Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (especially to the elderly, no matter their apparent social station), and kind (to anyone in obvious need), even a child can succeed where those who seem more qualified have failed.

And this precisely what children most need to hear.

To let them go on believing that the world is safe, that they will be provided for and achieve worthwhile things even if they remain stupid, shirk integrity, despise courtesy, and act only from self-interest, that they ought to rely on those stronger, smarter, and more able to solve their problems, would be the gravest disservice: to them, and to society as a whole.

-On the Supposed Unsuitability of Fairytales for Children”
― J. Aleksandr Wootton

“True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.”
― Abigail Landsbrook

“Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.”
― Barack Obama

“A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of virtue when one has to get rich at all cost?
The ancient political thinkers forever spoke of morals and of virtue; ours speak only of commerce and money.”
― Jean Jaques Rousseau

“Integrity - one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.”
― Salley Farquharson

“There's great peace in surrendering to principles”
― Stefan Molyneux

“There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.”
― A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet

“Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.”
― Felix Adler

“The government is ethics rape in perpetuity”
― Stefan Molyneux

“A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What then is the relation of law to morality? Law cannot prescribe morality, it can prescribe only external actions and therefore it should prescribe only those actions whose mere fulfillment, from whatever motive, the state adjudges to be conducive to welfare. What actions are these? Obviously such actions as promote the physical and social conditions requisite for the expression and development of free—or moral—personality.... Law does not and cannot cover all the ground of morality. To turn all moral obligations into legal obligations would be to destroy morality. Happily it is impossible. No code of law can envisage the myriad changing situations that determine moral obligations. Moreover, there must be one legal code for all, but moral codes vary as much as the individual characters of which they are the expression. To legislate against the moral codes of one’s fellows is a very grave act, requiring for its justification the most indubitable and universally admitted of social gains, for it is to steal their moral codes, to suppress their characters.”
― R.M. MacIver 1882 1970 Scottish sociologist educator. The Modern State ch. 5 Oxford University Press

“Scientific advancement carries risk,â€� Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.â€�
Vittoria was amazed at Kohler’s ability to weigh moral issues with scientific detachment. His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit. “You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi na teknolojia.”
― Enock Maregesi

“They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.”
― Justus Liebig

“Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.”
― Heather Paxson, Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America (California Studies in Food and Culture)

“What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up.”
― Ava Zavora, Forever Elude Me

“We do the right things at the wrong time because we think we are doing the right thing and the wrong things at the wrong times simply because we want to.”
― Zack Somuyiwa

“Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.”
― Anthony Liccione