Quotes About Morality

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

We can never give up the belief that good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oh, what times! Oh, what standards!

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.

When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

He who hates vice hates men.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.