Quotes About Morality

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

Integrity is critical to our lives - and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us human in the sense of our moral accountability, our moral absolutes, and our idea of being distinct from the animal kingdom.

How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?

Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

As I heard out people who had done others wrong, I'd often wonder how a human allows his or her better judgement to override their conscience. When I share these feelings with my friends, they say, 'Everyone isn't like you.' But I think it's easy to assert your better feelings and not allow the darker side to dominate your personality.

The question should never be, 'Can I shoot him?' The question should always be, 'Do I have to shoot him?

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.