Quotes About Morality

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

Our moral compass - it's always been Judeo-Christian.

We should actively be thinking about what our inventions would look like if exploited by someone with a less of a moral compass and decide if the world would really be better off with them in it.

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

When we have people whose lives are being turned around in a negative way because they're incarcerated for either too long or for crimes that don't need incarceration, that's a moral issue for me.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out those who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is. Where are you on that scale? I know where I am.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.

You can't legislate morality.

Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.