Quotes About Morality

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I am not perfect, but my faith keeps me as close to the straight and narrow as possible.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

We've become embarrassed about asking ourselves the straightforward, simple questions that are actually the most relevent: what is it to be human? How can we steer a course between self-indulgence and self-denial and be the very best version of ourselves that we can?

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

Morality aside, there are other factors deterring 'strategic defaults,' whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs of giving up one's home and moving, the perceived social stigma of defaulting, and a serious hit to a borrower's credit rating.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

Doing good things for wrong reasons consistently brings unfavorable results.

It's as if the moment society started to break down, people lost their handle on right and wrong.

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

The majority have no right to do wrong.

His objective was to achieve something which the dead, the living, and the children yet unborn would approve of