Quotes About Morality

My paper was a direct discussion and comparison of half-a-dozen ethical systems, concentrating on what seemed to me to be their flaws. I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were *right* and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions

A country whose population gets its living by cheating is a bad country.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good it will cease to be great.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

He swore to all the world and to himself that he would remain decent. And as long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money, which was a moment he had been waiting for, to show them all what he was made of.

Skurken är naturligtvis mer syndig, men dessa hedervärda utan hederskänsla är, om ni så vill, värda ett större förakt.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light. (III, 3)

Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. (III, 3) Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death

To determine whether you are truly thriving, you must also consider your eulogy virtues—the virtues others will extol at your funeral. These are the character traits at your core, the deep internal part of you where it's not always comfortable to look for any length of time.

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!

I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.

If something is too risque, don't watch it.

We live in a society where people will watch erotic stuff and then pass comments on it.