Quotes About Morality

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Right and wrong are both very subjective, it's all grey.

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out and out ridiculous). It gets the morality of the story wrong, and in the process turns God into Gaia and morality into radical deep green environmentalism.