If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Keth, power brings with it the need to make moral judgments; history proves that. You have no choice but to make those decisions.

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.