Quotes About Morality

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Preaching Christian salvation is to preach moral absolutes. Hollywood no likey.

He preaches well that lives well.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

The thing I try to preach the most when anybody asks me for advice - I say just be a good person first and foremost.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a heck of a lot more about morality than every precise actual fact.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.