Quotes About Morality

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

The great hope of society is in individual character

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

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.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.