Quotes About Morality

I still believe in a lot of good old-fashioned values, and I do think anyone will ever change me in that respect.

I'd like to think I'm a good guy as I've gotten older.

Even the older generation are able to understand things when they see it on TV and identify with it. A lot of people are able to empathise with the characters. They can also distinguish between good and bad.

The one time I shot a gun, the feelings I felt, I was guilty for feeling them. There is an exhilaration and a glamour, and I felt awful for feeling that.

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Money has no moral opinions.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand.  To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.