Moral Judgment Quotes

If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

The famine has been sent by God to teach the Irish a lesson.... The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral superiority.

Those who are innocent today may be guilty tomorrow.

All that seems earth is hell or heaven.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Competition is a sin.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.