Quotes About Morality

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

I say I dont sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I dont sleep with happily married men.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

You know what? I really resent the idea that the only reason someone might be good or moral is because they're religious. I do what I do," Anne said, biting off each word, "without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require heaven or hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently, thank you very much.

Taking another life, she had whispered, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.

Once upon a time, Long, long ago, Seven stars were flung from the sky. One to shake the mountains, One to churn the seas, One to choke the air, And four to test the hearts of men. Your hearts are to be tested now. Open them to the truths, For we must not just be ready For the enemy without, But also the enemy within.

This was something I'd never been trained for. There were no military strategies or drills to prepare me for the daily torment of not killing someone.

Taking a life, even a guilty one, should never be easy. If it were, we'd be little more than animals.

Killing in the name of war was one thing. Killing one's own kin was quite another.

Killing is different from thinking about killing.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choices we make.

You will have to do worse things to survive. Sometimes you must kill.

Tomar a vida de outra pessoas, ela havia sussurrado, até mesmo sendo alguém culpado, nunca deve ser fácil. Se fosse, seríamos um mais do que animais

The poor stole what they could from the rich, and the rich stole what they could from the working poor - one act called crime, the other, industry

There are no pure people.