Quotes About Morality

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

You can go a long way with some integrity.

Character is what we are in the dark

The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

But there was a flip side to his fastidiousness. He saw that now. It was a nose-in-the-air way of moving through the world. In every smoothed wrinkle, every perfected motion, there was an air of moral judgment, though he didn't intend it. There were people, he implied, who lived sloppy lives, and then there were people like him. ~Gilley

It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.

Satan greets people in hell by saying: "You'll find that there's no right or wrong here—just what works for you.

Craig summarized his next point succinctly at the outset: "A third factor pointing toward God is the existence of objective moral values in the universe. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist.

If Bobby had to guess, he'd say that killing folks was some kind of sickness where imagination and emotion got all mixed up. If

Only man can blush. No other creature knows of shame. Why have we wandered so far away From simple honesty?

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

I happen to believe that individuals are more apt to act responsibly and morally than institutions ever do, which at least puts us on the side of justice. And I also believe individuals are always smarter and better adapted to survival, at least in the long run, than any institution.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Might does not make right, but right demands that those who hold to it should defend it with all their might.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.