Jeff Lindsay Quotes

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We are in the position of a man with an elaborate camping kit who finds himself lost in the woods without his matches; to kindle a fire he has to resort to the stratagems of the caveman. We fall back through generations into the oldest terrors and confusions of the race.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.