Quotes About Morality

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.

Such, in all modesty, is the reward of virtue.

Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?

Everyone has the capacity to do terrible things. Put someone in the right situation, then offer the right incentive or trigger the right emotion, and that person will choose wrong over right, even if it goes against their nature.

By limiting their moral concerns to domestic and sexual behavior, many members of the middle class were able to ignore the harsh realities of life for the lower classes or even to blame working people's problems on their not being sufficiently committed to domesticity and female purity. Yet the establishment of a male breadwinner/female homemaker family in the middle and upper classes often required large sections of the lower class to be unable to do so.

standards. I don't think Oliver would have

What kind of man eats your fish when you won't sleep with him?

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.