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Quotes About Morality

Money There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
~ Sophocles
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
~ Sophocles
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
~ Sophocles
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
~ Sophocles
Knowing the sin in this world's grandest depravity.
~ Sorin Cerin
We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.
~ Sorin Cerin
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.
~ South
Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.
~ South
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
~ Sovereign
Because if you're out there not out of a love for justice, but rather, out of hate for your enemy, in no short time you will become the evil you thought you were fighting. Before you know it, the good guys will be the ones protesting you.
~ Spencer Baum
If everyone lived their lives the way you lived yours, would the world be better or worse?
~ Spencer Baum
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
~ Spencer Johnson
Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting - not many, mind you, but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.
~ Spencer Tracy
If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man's approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Rationalizing is the bringing of ideals down to the level of one's conduct. Repentance is the bringing of one's conduct up to the level of his ideals.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
How wonderful that God should endow us with this sensitive yet strong guide we call a conscience! Someone has aptly re-marked that "conscience is a celestial spark which God has put into every man for the purpose of saving his soul.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
What message may I take from you to the young people in Zion?" The answer was quick and positive. "Tell them," said the doomed man, "to keep their lives so full of good works that there will be no room for evil.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light." (John 3:19-20.)
~ Spencer W. Kimball
If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first...
~ Spider Robinson
Do the right thing
~ Spike Lee
Killing of civilians was an outrage I couldn't swallow on any basis, on any side. In the end there were no sides. Just living and dead.
~ Spike Milligan
The knowledge of evil is inadequate knowledge Ethics Book IV, proposition 64
~ Spinoza