Moral Bias Quotes

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born?

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

No one sees themself as the villain in their story.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

The fact that there’s a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers.

The depraved nature of man is well known. He has a natural bias toward his own interest, which will prevail ... unless checked.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

I was always told that films were evil and such, but I started to realise what a load of crap it was that something this good should be forbidden. I had been allowed to read as much as I wanted when I was younger, so I recognised great art when I saw it; I just didn't realise it would be at the cinema as well.

I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.