Quotes About Morality

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete - there is an angry old man in the sky, and if I do something wrong, he will punish me.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

Don't get me wrong, I'm very good, I'm a loyal person and I would never treat anyone badly - what goes around comes around. But I do go for the bad boy. I haven't outgrown that.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.