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Quotes About Morality

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.
~ Ray Stevenson
Fear is the mother of morality.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
~ J. P. Morgan
Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.
~ Randy Alcorn
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
~ Benjamin Rush
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
~ Mother Teresa
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
~ Don King
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
~ Mother Teresa
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
~ John Calvin
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
~ Philip Sidney
I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.
~ Cleveland Amory
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.
~ Gregory A. Boyd
There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.
~ Willie Nelson
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
~ Aeschylus
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
~ Kitty Carlisle
My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.
~ Vincent Gallo
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
~ Emma Goldman
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.
~ Theodore Parker
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
~ Charles Dickens