Quotes About Morality

It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.

If you don't make a stand for something you'll never make a stand for nothing..

All of us can lie but it is not a must that we should lie.

Anyone - your daddy or mine, your ancestor or mine, your god or mine - who bays for blood of "infidels" is an a***ole. And non-divine.

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance

You must be more committed to the truth of God's word and what is right than the flaws in our society.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.

selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.

The moral high ground was at the top of a slippery slope—

So they just made sure they weren't part of the problem and fought the good fight, knowing they'd never prevail.

Princess Mary, William's wife, and Princess Anne cooperated in the ouster of their father, James II. It was, as Pocock continues, "a spectacular display of reason of state rising above the restraints of common morality; daughters dethroned their father, even the sanitized version of King Lear was hard to perform for many years, and what William of Orange and John Churchill severally did is still enough to take your breath away if you think about it.

the demon virtues — patience, deception, quick hands, craftiness, an for the mistakes of others

Litvak knew that charisma was a real if indefinable quality, a chemical fire that certain half-fortunate men gave off. Like any fire or talent, it was amoral, unconnected to goodness or wickedness, power or usefulness or strength.

He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand.

There are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many.You don't need to add to them

All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you….

The truth was, there was nothing in the law that I objected to more than the death penalty. It was not that I had ever had a client executed or even tried such a case. It was simply a belief in the idea that an enlightened society did not kill its own.

He believed that war brought out the true character in a person, good or bad. He had no sympathy for Banks or the others.