Quotes About Morality

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever.

The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.

yet no process of reasoning could lead him to comprehend, that in the eye of the Almighty there is no distinction of color. He looked upon the black man simply as an animal

A man with a particle of mercy in his soul would not have beaten even a dog so cruelly.

Is every thing right because the law allows it ? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

The question of the moral status of wealth, and the relation of Christian faith to issues of economic justice and responsibility, seems to me one of the areas in which Christians are most confused, divided, and uneasy.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

I will be angry until my dying day, Mr Catchpool. Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.

One must stick by one's principles or else the fabric of society crumbles. If a child of mine deserved it, I would hang him myself.

There is a difference, Peter, between an unforgivable act and a person of unforgivable character.

Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.

And once a first murder has been committed, the second becomes so much easier. The law against killing our fellow men and women is not there only to protect them, but also to protect us from our worst impulses.

Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.

Just because we are carriers doesn't mean that we have to live without conscience. The minute we forget that, the minute it's every man for himself... then all is lost. We've become the monsters they say we are.

Character is what you do when no one's looking.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

It is a good thingTo escape from death, but it is not great pleasureTo bring death to a friend.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

War never slays a bad man in its course,But the good always!