Quotes About Morality

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!

Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.

We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and enter the army.

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.

I know that Israeli soldiers will do everything they can in order to avoid loss of innocent life.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

For a lawyer to shade or slant his legal advice to advance a private agenda is among the gravest betrayals of his solemn duty as an attorney.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

I was always a Brandon Walsh kind of gal. The good guy, the class president. He just seemed like a really solid guy.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.