“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, forgive me if I seem distracted. I've been preoccupied of late with, uh, questions of morality. Of right and wrong, good and evil. Sometimes the delineation between the two is a sharp line. Sometimes it's a blur, and often it's like pornography: you just know when y…”— Marco Ramirez, Matt Murdock, Charlie Cox, imdb.com
“When someone categorizes something evil, as Sherman did, as Peter and Mr. A repeatedly did, he implicitly gives himself permission to do what needs to be done to destroy it.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“By 1939, Franz Halder, a German general, had taken to carrying a pistol so that when he was in the room with Hitler, he might assassinate him. But he could never pull the trigger. He could not reconcile how he could take up as “human being and a Christian to shoot down an unarmed man.””— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“America has grown by expansion in a practical vacuum; the pioneers of the West had to overcome terrific natural obstacles, but negligible human resistance. The Russia of today had to conquer not only natural but human difficulties: she had to break up the rotten system of the Czars and to assimilate…”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“Frequency of use of words like ‘I ’ or ‘me’ have been associated in previous studies with lack of forthrightness.”— Ephrat Livni, qz.com
“The next time someone tells you to watch your language, feel free to tell them to fuck off.”— Ephrat Livni, qz.com
“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“In ethics the Taoist railed at the laws and the moral codes of society, for to them right and wrong were but relative terms.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“Nobody ever told him he was personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society he grew up in.”— Eliezer Yudkowsky, hpmor.com
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“The recompense of an injury is an injury the like thereof; but whoso forgives and his act brings about reformation, his reward is with Allah.”— Maulawi Sher Ali, amazon.com
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”— C. G. Jung, en.wikiquote.org
“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com