Quotes About Morality

Pray that liars aren't kept a long time in purgatory

Do you know why we drink? So we can do the things our conscience won't let us do when we're sober.

Forget morality tales and all the fury and mire of human complexity, and follow the money. It will lead you through urban legends about sex and revenge and jealousy and the acquisition of power over others, but ultimately, it will lead you to the issue from which all the other motivations derive—money, piles of it, green and lovely and cascading like leaves out of a beneficent sky, money and money and money, the one item that human beings will go to any lengths to acquire.

James Lee Burke

I didn't know who Ernest Hemingway was until I moved to Key West and visited his house on Whitehead Street," she said. "Then I started reading his books, and I saw something in one of them I never forgot. He said the test of all morality is whether you feel good or bad about something the morning after.

How many lives would have been spared had we not lent ourselves to the defense of a repellent cause like slavery?

He was going to kill you," she said. "And me. Fair's fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts." "Still and all. We don't kill unless we have to." River reflected on this, then smiled brightly. "Okay! That's a good rule." "I like to think so.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

Yes, it was rape, but only technical, brother, only technical. Above the waist, maybe she was worried about the sacrilegio, but from the waist down she wanted me, bad. There couldn't be any doubt about that.

If you follow someone who's universally viewed as having impeccable character and strong integrity, then you're likely to be viewed the same. If you willingly follow someone who's considered dishonest and unethical, your own image is tarnished.

a Quaker abolitionist with "a reasonable leaning toward wrath in cases of emergency

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.

Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.

But secular-ism, more than any other single word, aptly describes the mental framework and value structure of the people of our time.

This was not a just war after all—it was just a war: yet another exercise in consecrated barbarity and sanctified slaughter.

There are no boundries between good and evil where love is concerned.

To steal book seems like stealing the soul out of someone.

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to

Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie.

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

What test? Asked Nudge. Max, you're incorruptible. Only by power. I said. You haven't tried chocolate yet.

Sometimes being a leader isn't about winning. Sometimes it's about doing what's right, instead of what's powerful.

stand for something or fall for nothing, if you are neutral you'll be pushed anywhere.