Quotes About Morality

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

For people who never tire of telling the world what a moral high ground they've taken in opposing Donald Trump, they sure don't seem to mind offering up a bellyful of gloats and taunts.

The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

If you're honest about things, people will trust you, even if you're a bad guy. That says something about where we are and who we are as people.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Sincerity is moral truth.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.