Quotes About Morality

Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount -Lucifer

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

Playing God is as dangerous for God as it is for humans.

Never make a cheater your partner. Never make your partner a cheater.

Just because it's forbidden doesn't mean it's good for you.

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

Always do right and you'll always have too much to do.

Honesty is the best policy that almost no one uses.

Honesty, not modesty, is a virtue.

Even at their absolute best, religious answers remain authoritarian attempts to instill virtue through inspiring intimidation.

It is said that the end justifies the means, but that overlooks the crucial detail that only just means will culminate in a just end.

Money is not the root of all evil, but it is popular because people believe it is.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,Like season'd timber, never gives.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Poverty is no sin.

Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

Deeply embedded in conservative and liberal politics are different models of the family. Conservatism, as we shall see, is based on a Strict Father model, while liberalism is centered around a Nurturant Parent model. These two models of the family give rise to different moral systems and different discourse forms, that is, different choices of words and different modes of reasoning. Once

Jonathan Edwards is sometimes criticized for having too dim a view of human nature, but it may be helpful to be reminded that his grandmother was an incorrigible profligate, his great-aunt committed infanticide, and his great-uncle was an ax-murderer.

Lippmann declared that "if what is good, what is right, what is true, is only what the individual 'chooses' to 'invent', then we are outside the traditions of civility.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

Most of us do not think of ourselves as criminals, but possibly there are things in our daily lives which we regard as our "inheritance" which will move future generations to critical disgust.