Quotes About Morality

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...

Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.

Honor, " she said, "is the coin that stays in your pocket when all your silver has been spent.

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

Morality and honor are not to be confused. "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.