Quotes About Morality

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

La personalidad es algo muy misterioso. No puede valorarse a un hombre por lo que hace. Puede cumplir la ley y ser despreciable. Puede incumplir la ley y aun así ser un caballero. Puede ser malo sin haber hecho nunca nada malo. Puede cometer un pecado contra la sociedad y tomar conciencia, gracias a ese pecado, de su propia perfección...

Pero ¿quién decide si las leyes son justas? Nadie, cada quien. Millones de mexicanos se erigen todos los días en jueces de cuáles leyes deben o no obedecer.

a man killed committing a felony--and bombing and arson ought to qualify for that--is simply bought and paid for; his blood is on nobody's head but his own.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right. 865

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking.

Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.

Freedom means taking sides in a crisis situation, when a society is divided into oppressed and oppressors. In this situation we are not permitted the luxury of being on neither side by making a decision that only involves the self.

Sometimes only evil could defeat another evil. Degrees

Then, my son, when the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled, and the meek shall inherit the earth.

never did he adore anyone quite so purely as he adored the Candidate, or hate so fiercely as he hated the Other Candidate. And never afterwards did he tell such a downright thumping lie, nor was there a time ever again when right and wrong seemed to him so simply on this side and on that. A little boy then, and a man now if he had lived; he was killed on July 1st, 1916. When Chips read out his name in Brookfield Chapel that week, his voice broke and he could not go on.

Just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesn't mean they will act upon it.

I believe that people are more good than bad. But at the end of the day, if we're true to those things in us that feel true and feel right, the world gets a little better each day

Always take a stand for what is right. And If you end up standing alone, then dammit, stand alone.

There comes a time in your life when you Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

There comes a time in your life when you do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you are pointing a finger at.

If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.