Quotes About Morality

Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher... but..."

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

Uriah proved to be a better man drunk than David was sober.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.