Quotes About Morality

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

For one, as I've written before, the death penalty is plainly unjust. When the number of wrongful convictions and death penalty cases that are eventually exonerated number in the hundreds, if not thousands, we can not call it a moral system.

Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.

Unkindness is quite a major sin.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.