Quotes About Morality

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.

I am one who shows great respect and commends the Cuban people for having the guts to go over to Cuba to get Cubans out when they had the opportunity to do it. I think it's a... shame that the Jews here in the United States in the 1930s didn't do the same for other Jews who were also in trouble.

Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president.

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

Johnny Cash was a good man. He tried to live up to his faith. It was just difficult.

All is lost save honor.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

sejarah menjadikan orang bijaksana, puisi menjadikan orang fasih lidah, matematika menjadikan orang cerdik, filsafat menyebabkan orang berpikir dalam, moral menjadikan orang bersikap sungguh-sungguh, logika dan ilmu berpidato menjadikan orang berani mengeluarkan pendapat.

Nupital love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.

We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like. There, why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other.

For this is but to dash the first table against the second; and so to consider men as Christians, as we forget that they are men. Lucretius the poet, when he beheld the act of Agamemnon, that could endure the sacrificing of his own daughter, exclaimed: Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum.

Great hypocrite are the real atheists

He prayed to goodness that the relationship might be reasonably remote. He remembered, anxiously, that a man may not marry his grandmother...

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.