Quotes About Morality

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.