Quotes About Morality

The Nation observed, "If you steal $25, you're a thief. If you steal $250,000, you're an embezzler. If you steal $2,500,000, you're a financier.

Without a moral center -- there can be no string family. And without family, we one and all suffer.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part…. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed.

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

an age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

Beyond an ethic of law (certainly not within it as far as the Christian is concerned) we are called, as we gradually deepen our faith, to invent a paradoxical morality, that of creative love. This morality gives precedence to the person, the mystery of the person's nature and destiny, over social ideas of right and justice.

Yace aquí el gran Cardenal, que hizo en vida mal y bien, el bien que hizo lo hizo mal, el mal que hizo lo hizo bien.

Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet, but they cannot live together in harmony .

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilisation is dead. Period.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Elementarze to wst?p do lektury ksi??ek. Ksi??ki s? zagro?eniem dla cnoty. A cnota jest tym wi?ksza im wi?ksza jest niewiedza.

Prawo niesie ze sobÄ… obowiÄ…zek, a ci którzy nie wypeÅ'niajÄ… swoich obowiÄ…zków, nie zasÅ'ugujÄ… na ?adne prawa

Basta volere un figlio per costringerlo alla vita? Ed è giusto sacrificare una vita già fatta a una vita che ancora non è?

Vedi, nemmeno a contatto con l'infinito un uomo diventa grande se in lui non v'è grandezza. Andar sulla Luna non ci rende certo migliori.