Quotes About Morality

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

Always speak and act the truth, and be kind to all who need your help.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

Well, we've only had a certain number of executions in the last few years- whatever it was- and two of them were for the personal convenience of Truman Capote.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.

Men who pride themselves on being shrewd in discovering the weak points, the vanity, the dishonesty, immorality, intrigue, and pettiness of others think they understand character. They know only a part of character. They know only the depths to which some men may sink; they know not the heights to which some men may rise.

The power of self-control is one of the great qualities that differentiates man from the lower animals. He is the only animal capable of a moral struggle or a moral conquest.

To dragoon man into the adoption of what we think right, is an intolerable tyranny.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

the law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity; and it turns into marble the hearts of all those that are nursed in its principles.

There is but one power to which I can yield a heart felt obedience, the decision of my own understanding, the dictate of my own conscience

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

We are agreed that the son shall not be disgraced even by the crime of the father, much less by the crime of a more distant relative. It

There is no injunction, no "ought" in political economy at all. It

The law of the conservation of energy is not simply a law of physics; it is a law of the whole moral universe, and

Aristocrats have always had their class vices and their class virtues. They have always been, as a class, chargeable with licentiousness and gambling. They have, however, as a class, despised lying and stealing. They

our faith has been dangerously weakened—watered down by a blind and essentially false and cruel sentimentalism.