Quotes About Morality

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

If you want to be remembered as a good person, then try to be a good person. Who knows? It might just work. But start now, because if you're a boomer, time is running out.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

He kept the gun in his lap as he drove, and he prayed. It was the strangest prayer he'd ever offered. He asked for strength to do the wrong thing, and then forgiveness for doing it.

Still more striking is the fact that Kant unites epistemology and ethics specifically through the concept of law.

Consequently, no idea – no complete series of answers to why-questions – can ever be an object of human knowledge. Yet, Kant argues, without ideas morality would be impossible:

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

Lord, I don't understand it, but when a person does something wrong, it never feels wrong until later. It's never as evil as you'd imagined.

There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory.

The greatest redemption is between the war of two evils, their very retaliation reveals their goodly nature.

Old saying, 'What goes around comes around.' You could have avoided ALL this turmoil IF YOU had only played fair.

If human beings had the wisdom and knowledge-generating capacity to be able to describe how a free market would work, that would be the strongest possible argument for central planning. One advocates a free market not because of some moral imprimatur written across the heavens, but because it is impossible for human beings to amass the knowledge of local conditions and the predictive capacity necessary to effectively organize economic relationships among millions of individuals.

The Constitution is like a "No Guns Zone" sign for conservatives, in that the only people it would bind are those who are already generally honest and peaceable. The ones who would lie or commit harm would simply look at the piece of paper and scoff. With unrelenting logic, Spooner dissects the sanctity of the Constitution and demonstrates that it cannot be said to have moral authority over anyone.

There was no such thing as situational integrity.

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, and cruelty. —Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ? John Wooden Quote

If a woman enjoyed sex, or expressed her sexuality outwardly she was automatically a slut with no respect for herself. Sex was a favor you allowed your husband so angels wouldn't curse you until morning.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

experience convinces me that no permanent good can come out of untruth and violence.

Is that why you do good deeds, Richie? To shorten your time in Purgatory?' 'Oh, honey,' he said, brushing lint from an orange sleeve. 'I'm going to hell. That's where the action is.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

Liberty is the object of the Republic. Liberty needs virtue. Virtue among the people is impossible without religion.

cannot associate with one another without creating a moral relationship.