Quotes About Morality

People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

When anything and everything goes, there are no real values, no definite right and wrong.

If everyone's perspective is equally right, she warned her husband, then there is no absolute right, and everything goes. It could leave you without bearings, adrift and lost.

Men wrote the Bible, but God made our consciences.

Men wrote the Bible, but God made our consciences. Does he want them to gather dust?' There

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in vain but are outraged if they see a pregnant woman smoking, then you are living in a world that values the worldly more than the divine.

holding people responsible. People born into the most chaotic situations can still be asked the same questions: Are you living for short-term pleasure or long-term good? Are you living for yourself or for your children? Do you have the freedom of self-control or are you in bondage to your desires? The Cost of Relativism, NYT article 3/10/15

His moral task was to suffer well, to be worthy of his sufferings. He could not control how much he suffered, but he could control his inner response to his sufferings.

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

Sin is a necessary piece of our mental furniture because it reminds us that life is a moral affair.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tires to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tries to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tries to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice" altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.

Modern society has created a giant apparatus for the cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional faculties down below. Children are coached on how to jump through a thousand scholastic hoops. Yet by far the most important decisions they will make are about whom to marry and whom to befriend, what to love and what to despise, and how to control impulses. On these matters, they are almost entirely on their own.

People who are humble about their own nature are moral realists. Moral realists are aware that we are all built from "crooked timber"— from Immanuel Kant's famous line, "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Anything that sounds or looks beautiful would seem to that crowd to be merely pretty, shallow, and therefore deeply suspect—morally suspect, even, I found out. Noise, for them, is deep; beauty shallow.

Daniel Webster, one of America's most famous statesmen, once said: "If we work on marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work on immortal souls and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!

better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.

As an artist you look into yourself to understand the human potential to be all kinds of things that are not necessarily pleasant but are real - a criminal, a murderer, a sadist, a rapist; to be all of these things that many people are. You can't allow yourself to say, 'I'm a different species from those people.' Because you aren't.