Quotes About Morality

If the hero hasn't turned up, you may have to settle for the villain." "If the villain's the one who turns up, he is the hero.

No one ever thinks their own behavior is immoral, only other people's.

I never lie for the sake of kindness," he murmured, smiling. "One of my many flaws.

You're not worried about principles."Gabriel leaned closer, crowding her gently back against the column. His taunting whisper curled in her right ear like a wisp of smoke. "You're worried that you might do something naughty with me and enjoy it.

You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily. 'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.' ~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan.

I'm a public sinner with a ton of money. Any church would want me.

Sin is never free, there's either an up-front cost or an invoice to pay later.

I've lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.

I'm a good, upstanding guy with moral values and core values.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.

Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.

The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.

Be true to yourself and your values.

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

The values me mam and dad tried to drum into us were no stealing, go to church, go to school - all of which we ignored. We'd fight, we stole, we cheated and we didn't go to school.

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.