Quotes About Morality

A number of the heads of the offices were slippery politicians of a low moral grade, themselves appointed under the spoils system, and anxious, directly or indirectly, to break down the merit system and to pay their own political debts by appointing their henchmen and supporters to the positions under them. Occasionally these men acted with open and naked brutality. Ordinarily they sought by cunning to evade the law.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The question grows more troubling with each passing year how much of what yesterday's science fiction regarded as unspeakably dreadful has become today's award-winning research

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Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major. After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a human being who does not believe in killing my fellow man for insufficient reason.

I may be a slut, but I'm a slut who is growing a conscience.

I'd rather be a fool than a vulture feeding off other people.

Leave your wife and children, never have contact with them again, and I will give you a life of luxury. He sold his soul. And he'd done it with both eyes open.

A man who evades his own conscience is a dupe.

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason.

The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?

You do not grow in holiness because of the praise you receive, nor do you become evil because of the blame poured upon you.

Unhappily we are so weak that we find it easier to believe and speak evil of others, rather than good.

Profound theology doesn't make anyone righteous; what pleases me is an exemplary life. Regret for wrongdoing is better than knowing its definition.

For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.