Quotes About Morality

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

If that's the kind of person you want, vote for Hillary [Clinton], vote for [Donald] Trump - and you go to hell with both of them.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.

Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.

When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.

What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.