The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.
Jodi PicoultTags: love ethics morals decisions law answer
We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.
G.K. ChestertonMake not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.
Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-MaʿarrīTags: morality ethics morals shame responsibility secular-morality fairness scoundrel scoundrels shameful
Brandon, until this very moment, the world and the people in it have always been dark and incomprehensible to me, and I've tried to clear my way with logic and superior intellect, and you've thrown by own words right back in my face; you've given my words a meaning that I never dreamed of, and you tried to twist them into a cold logical excuse for your ugly murder!
Tonight you've made me ashamed of every concept I've ever had, of superior or inferior beings, but I thank you for that shame, because now I know that we're each of us a separate human being, Brandon, with the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society that we live in. By what right do you dare say that there's a superior few to which you belong? By what right did you dare decide that that boy in there [he's referencing the dead body of "David," lying in a trunk in the middle of the room] was inferior and therefore could be killed?
Did you think you were God Brandon? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him? Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave! I don't know what you thought or what you are, but I know what you've done—YOU'VE MURDERED! You've strangled the life of a fellow human being who could live and love as you never could... and never will again!
Tags: humanity morals murder alfred-hitchcock responsability jimmy-stewart rope
Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.
Alexis de TocquevilleTags: morals
We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.
Kenzaburō ŌeUnderstanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
Kenzaburō ŌeTags: society morals work understanding
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
Jostein GaarderTags: morals philosophy
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Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!
Robert BoltTags: life morals values principles
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