Quotes About Morality

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

Money is an amplifier. It makes good people better and bad people worse by creating opportunities they wouldn't have had without it.

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Doua lucruri imi stapanesc mintea, mereu si staruitor minunandu-ma: cerul instelat deasupra mea si legea morala in mine.

Nienawidzie? si? wolno-doda?a z gorzkim u?miechem-kra??, zabija?... wszystko, wszystko wolno, tylko nie wolno kocha?... Ach, moja mamo, je?eli ja nie mam racji, wi?c dlaczegó? Jezus Chrystus nie mówi? ludziom: b?d?cie rozs?dni, tylko- kochajcie si??

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

The white man who begins by cheating a Negro usually ends by cheating a white man. The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.

that my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not—of

The ministry was the profession that suffered most—and still suffers, though there has been great improvement—on account of not only ignorant but in many cases immoral men who claimed that they were "called to preach.

He was too big to be little, too good to be mean.

The more I consider the subject, the more strongly I am convinced that the most harmful effect of the practice to which the people in certain sections of the South have felt themselves compelled to resort, in order to get rid of the force of the Negroes' ballot, is not wholly in the wrong done to the Negro, but in the permanent injury to the morals of the white man.

The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.

The white man who begins by cheating a Negro usually ends by cheating a white man. The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man. All this, it seems to me, makes it important that the whole Nation lend a hand in trying to lift the burden of ignorance from the South.

After all, what is sin? It is an action through which a person betrays his dignity.

But what are pity, conscience, or fearTo the brazen pair, comparedWith the living sorceryOf their hot embraces?

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. — John Stuart Mill

When law and morality contradict each other the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect of the law. — Frederic Bastiat

What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable.