Quotes About Morality

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

All standards are double standards.

There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.

I can't have double standards, so I do what I believe in.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

Christians are increasingly being punished for the free exercise of their faith and for standing on God's Word and holding to biblical convictions about sin. This is especially apparent with the gay lobby.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Nothing is as important as standing up for what you believe in.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only not very attractive, from a moral and social standpoint, but also it's not very effective as a means of defending the country.

One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.

You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

Most important is be a good man.

Every virtuous man is free.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Men become old, but they never become good.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.