Quotes About Morality

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.

I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.

The integrity of the game is everything.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the office. President Franklin Roosevelt was a philanderer; nevertheless, he pushed aides to use his opponent Wendell Wilkie's affairs to hurt him. He even tutored aides on how to spread rumors without getting caught.

Britain has always told the world that being British is about the humanity, compassion and moral fortitude that we have. All great things that we are supposed to have spread across the world. A leave vote now says that we don't really care about anyone else, we don't care what happens to the European Union.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's where I've been, and I'm proud of it, and I'll always be there.

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?