Quotes About Morality

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Sin comes when communication lines are down - it always does, sooner or later.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

How can we expect fate to let a righteous cause prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.