Quotes About Morality

The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.

If all meaning were relative, then the meanings of the terms in the proposition "All meaning is relative" would be relative. Therefore the proposition "All meaning is relative" destroys itself. It is nothing but an evasion of reality. That seems a high price to pay, even for the privilege of killing people.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

At the very root of the modern liberal movement is the loss of the consciousness of sin.

the evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.

Material betterment has gone hand in hand with spiritual decline.

He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain: She's Ron's sister. But she's ditched Dean! She's still Ron's sister. I'm his best mate! That'll make it worse. If I talked to him first- He'd hit you. What if I don't care? He's your best mate!

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.