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Quotes About Morality

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
~ Meister Eckhart
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called 'same-sex marriage' and 'transgender' nonsense trampling the rights of Christians.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
~ Hesiod
I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
~ Kate Christensen
He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.
~ Ronan Farrow
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
~ James Stockdale
The role that one assigns to truthfulness will always remain central in considering what kind of person one wants to be—how one wishes to treat, not only other people, but oneself.
~ Sissela Bok
Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
~ Sissela Bok
It is not possible, many argue, to insist on respecting both difference and sameness when it comes to moral values: on honoring individual and cultural diversity while also holding that certain moral values go to the heart of what it means to be human and always have, since the beginning of time, and always must if we are not to lose touch with our humanity.
~ Sissela Bok
The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy.
~ Sissela Bok
man. I know these Americans believe that "all men are created equal." I don't. I believe all men are created, period. And each man makes choices and takes action one way or another. What a man chooses to do or not to do is the only way to measure his worth. A man who chooses to love is not equal to a man who chooses not to love. A man who builds is not equal to a man who destroys. A
~ Sister Souljah
Drugs rob every person, man, woman, and child of their beauty. Drugs turn people into animals who can only respond to instincts. Drugs are so powerful they eradicate the God in both the taker and the giver.
~ Sister Souljah
Not even let your left hand know when your right hand is donating
~ Sivaji
There is a verse in the Bible which reads: 'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter'. How did we get here America? When did we turn our backs on the precepts and common sense on which this country was founded? As a country, we have collectively lost our way, and nothing short of a total about face can save us!
~ Skip Coryell
It's not easy to kill; it's not supposed to be. If it is, then there's something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
~ Skip Coryell
In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State.
~ Smedley D. Butler
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.
~ Smiley Blanton
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth — that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
~ Socrates
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live
~ Socrates
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
~ Socrates
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
~ Socrates
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
~ Socrates
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
~ Socrates