Quotes About Morality

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

The worst government is the most moral.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.