Quotes About Morality

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you be complacent or go with the flow or wonder what to do. You must decide now which path you will follow and which answer you will give. Decide well in advance, before the pressure is on, what you stand for.

I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.

I don't think I've ever hurt anybody. I think I'll stand up on the day of judgment and go, 'Yeah? So what?'

I stand up for what I believe in and what I believe is right.

I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?

I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to.

I want these lefties to get called out as immoral basically to reduce the standard of living for every American by trying to ban fossil fuels in this country.

When money becomes more important than any other standard, then we're all in trouble.

As a gambler, I hold myself to an especially high standard of honor, and it disgusts me when people try to cheat at games.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

Our duty was to declare God's standards to the world: no adultery, no fornication, no gays, no idolatry.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering your standards. Don't buy into that way of thinking. As you watch TV or read magazines, you might be made to feel abnormal when, really, you are the one who has it figured out.

If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.