Perception of Morality Quotes

People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake is good. They like it, provided the message is wrapped up a little. And they like messages saying that murder is bad, cruelty is bad, and love is love is love is love. What they can't stand is to be told it all doesn't matter, they can't stand formlessness.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...