Quotes About Morality

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

What has changed in 40 years? It's very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.

It does not matter how many people chose moral duty over the rationality of self-preservation, what does matter is that some did. Evil is not all-powerful. It can be resisted. The testimony of the few who did resist shatters the authority of the logic of self-preservation. It shows it for what it is in the end: a choice.

This was replaced by a widespread and aggressive individualism whereby everyone looks out for himself, at the expense of others and without worrying about the good of society.