Quotes About Morality

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means.

A good deed does not erase a bad in my mind, yet neither does a bad dead erase a good.

Piety begins at home.

Religion is but a book; it is your own self and the decisions you make that form goodness and badness.

Those who wish to eradicate evil are those who create it.

Try to destroy evil and you may find yourself become the very evil you first set out to destroy.

Remember the words of the Bible in Amos 5:24, 'Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-falling stream'.

Let's do right in the eyes of God!

When I was teaching children I began every day writing this on the blackboard: "Do to others what you would like them to do to you", telling them how much better the world would be if everybody lived by this rule.

One may be just, if one is not human.

It would be much better for you to give up thinking of God and to create your own justice, since it is refused you.

J'ai fait un pacte avec la prostitution afin de semer le désordre dans les familles.

El bien es la victoria sobre el mal, la negación del mal. Si se canta el bien, el mal es eliminado por ese oportuno acto. No canto lo que no hay que hacer. Canto lo que hay que Hacer. Lo primero no contiene lo segundo. Lo segundo contiene lo primero.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Societies that treat women badly are dangerous societies. The empowerment of women is not only morally right it is also practical in the positive impact it has on so many social ills.

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

The man of wisdom is never in two minds about right and wrong; the man of benevolence never worries about the future; the man of courage is never afraid.

A gentleman considers what is right; The vulgar consider what will pay.