Quotes About Morality

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable.

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable." Not bad. You do it for inner reasons, not because someone is keeping score, or because you might be punished if you break the rules and get caught. You are marching to the beat of your own drummer.

Wickedness is a wrong action.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

No one would barbecue their family dog. Why is a cow or a pig or a chicken different?

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

In a morally healthy family the good of each member of a family includes and overlaps with the good of other members. When one family member flourishes, so typically do the others.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.