Quotes About Morality

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.