Quotes About Morality

that the unfortunate thing about losing the trivia game was that they had been caught cheating and should have cheated better, I wondered if it was possible that they had never been taught that lying was a bad thing.

Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.

No one stays good in this world.

What's the good of one person clinging to his morals when everyone else is so corrupt? What's the good of that?

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.

'Bleak House' is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.