Quotes About Morality

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first

I have half a conscience to go ahead and do it, and feel guilty afterwards

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way that is consistent with these values.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

When you accustom people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins... you will have sins in abundance

Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty

Things in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people are guilty as hell

Honest poverty lives happily; ill gotten wealth worries.

She was poor, but she was honest, Victim of the squire's whim: First he loved her, then he left her, And she lost her honest name.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw

A person who has no need of character is called characterless.

Character is what you are when no one is looking.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals.

much of what the church calls sin is simply being human.

Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one doing the persecuting-- both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human.

These are things," Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, "that the church calls sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing--" He paused. "--is to be kind.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what you're doing! Be cruel or be kind, but don't be both, because now you've made a mess you can't clean up in a hurry.

Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double-check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed it up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can.

I know exactly what is at stake, Captain. You are trying to convince yourself that whatever cause you follow is worth that girl's death. I know all about gods, Captain. I know that a god that demands a child's life is not a god worth saving. Choose.

She was a good witch and a decent person, but decent people aren't always easy to live with.

According to Jerome, Mary laid the foundations of virginity for both sexes, and the moral superiority of virginity becomes clear in her person. The reality was the other way around: Virginity was not prized because Mary was always a virgin, rather Mary was made a perpetual virgin because virginity was so highly praised.