Quotes About Morality

Whoever warns you against sins and vices is like the one who gives you good tidings.

A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

Mutilate not even a rabid dog.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.

More and more, the pressing human dilemma: how to walk a clean path between obscenities. Bernice

The act of saying I forgive you, it's like saying you are less than me and I have the moral or superior upper hand.

We cannot do wrong and feel right, nor can we give pain and gain pleasure, for justice avenges each slight.

That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie.

If we have any hope of maintaining freedom of thought and freedom of person in the near and distant future, we have to remember what the founding fathers knew: That freedom of thought and freedom of person must be erected together. That truth and justice cannot exist one without the other. That when one is threatened, the other is harmed. That justice, and thus morality, requires the empirical pursuit.

Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Those who betray others, lie and deceive, deserve each other.

There are things that do not change, which have an absolutely and transcendent validity, and which every person has a right to know. Religiously, morally, humanly, and politically our great nation can only hope to survive if it stands firmly on the ground of truth and gives its children the bread for which they hunger. This is the great task of education.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

In these early anonymous seasons, God graciously grants us the opportunity to wrestle with our appetites before other lives are at stake, to struggle with our passions privately before moral collapse affects the innocent publicly.

Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

Those who replace love in people's life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit "pious".

Virtue was ever double-edged.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it.

Make it right.

It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature