Quotes About Morality

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.