Quotes About Morality

That which is not just is not law.

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

How could somebody be comfortable with authorizing legally the use of lethal force? My view is if you become comfortable with it, then you should get out of the job.

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

A likable character isn't one who does nothing wrong.

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right.

We need to build an India that is an economic leader as well as a moral exemplar. For us, those two touchstones can never be separate. They are and must forever be linked.

We didn't have locks in the early 1940s because nobody got into anybody's house, and nobody did anything wrong.

You give up a lot being an atheist.

You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which 'basic trust' is lost.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

I always want to handle things in the right manner.

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal

Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that different from what animals do in the wild?

Mean people don't get away with anything, Blake. It may seem that they do, but in the end their meanness ricochets back at them.

What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.

My shining dishonesty will be my salvation

That is the path of Wickedness, though some call it the Road to Heaven.

Now there, Charles,' said Chrestomanci, 'you have an excellent example quite apart from rights and wrongs, of why it is such a bad idea to do things to people. Everyone is now sorry for Simon. Which is not what you want at all, is it?