Quotes About Morality

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

Only good people feel guilt.

The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

An evangelical minister has had to resign after pictures surfaced showing him in a hot tub with two women. He claimed it was just a baptism gone terribly wrong.

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.