Quotes About Morality

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Conventionality is not morality.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should -- so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

That parents should make over the religious education of their children to a Sunday School is, no doubt, as indefensible as if they sent them for their meals to a table maintained by the public bounty.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

Es importante elegir correctamente el instrumento de movilización de las masas. Este instrumento debe ser de índole moral, fundamentalmente, sin olvidar una correcta utilización del estímulo material, sobre todo de naturaleza social.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

La conscience morale de l'humanité progresse, lentement mais sûrement...

Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.

Sin is rarely without complication

We need him dead or in jail, and I'm probably a crappy murderer. – Libby

I immediately felt better about killing him. I've never known a Trevor who wasn't a total douchebag. It's just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he'd been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.

Without temptation, there was no virtue in resistance.

When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.

The antagonists who evoke the most emotion are the ones who could have been heroes if they'd made better choices.

But an ethical and evolved life also entails telling the truth about oneself and living out that truth.

We are here to build the house. It's our work, our job, the most important gig of all: to make a place that belongs to us, a structure composed of our own moral code. Not the code that only echoes imposed cultural values, but the one that tells us on a visceral level what to do. You know what's right for you and what's wrong for you.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

It's just an idea. There's no harm in ideas." "I ain't so sure of that," said Eddie Karl. "That Hitler had ideas.

Allison was a born conformer, a person who believed in doing the "right thing," being responsible, not making too many waves.