Quotes About Morality

If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an early demise. No one would speak out against evil because of his own courageous soul, but only to live another day. The right to choose is man's great gift, but one thing is not his to choose--the time and means of death.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Honesty is basic. It is true that lying is an accomplice to every other form of vice. Or, as someone has said, 'Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.' (O. W. Holmes, in The Home Book of Quotations, p. 1111.)

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Jesus said, "Shame on the flesh that depends on the soul. 2) Shame on the soul that depends on the flesh.

To begin with, one must not cause grief to anyone, whether great or small, unbeliever or believer, and one must not give help to those who are well off.

A woman doesn't just wake up one morning and decide to have an affair. No. The affair happens when day after day she fails to put on the brakes with her thoughts, fantasies, and sexual boundaries.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

One of the things that history is good for is puncturing our sanctimonious self-satisfaction about our own moral rectitude

The rule is simple: People with integrity are predisposed to perform; people without integrity are predisposed not to perform. It is best not to get the two confused.

A bad person is a bad person, and a bad person will never make you a good deal. The world is filled with enough good and honest people that doing business with the dishonest ones is pure foolishness.

His deep voice rose with the conviction reminiscent of a newly ordained priest. "Do we choose those to be judged or those who may cast a stone? And if we do, are we not committing a sin far greater than the sinner? Are we not, by doing so, the greater sinners?

An open heart didn't mean every man for himself. It meant doing what was best for the greater good. It meant doing in your heart what you knew to be the right thing to do, even if, maybe especially if, it also meant saying good-bye.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.