Quotes About Morality

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?

No one can make you honest. Only your heart and mind can do that.

We must be courageous yet humble and do what is right not what will make you popular,

We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

In a fight to the death, I would in no doubt throw the fight.signed.....A pacifist

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.