Quotes About Morality

Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, assumes personal responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and keeps out of it. Without this hidden conspiracy of good will, society would not endure an hour.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.

Sins of omission, Louis said. You don't believe in sins. I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice. You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"

PLATO A CAUTIONARY TALE He lost his gold, And he, finding the first man's gold, Lost his belt, And then he who lost his gold Found the other man's belt And hanged himself.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

While we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

Like slavery and piracy, terrorism has no place in the modern world.

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

I'm glad I was raised as a Baptist, because I got my conscience installed early.

For Justice, though she's painted blind, Is to the weaker side inclin'd.

So in the wicked there's no vice Of which the saints have not a spice.

Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.

The rewards and punishments of the moral laws of nature therefore require additional supports. Something else is needed, and that something else comes in two forms: first, there are social sanctions, or what Locke calls "the law of opinion or reputation"; and, second, there are civil sanctions that Locke designates as "civil law."52

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.