Quotes About Morality

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

I was never violent. I denounced even back then violence and left it because I didn't want to be associated with that kind of taint.

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.