Quotes About Morality

I think it's time for the media and our leaders to get real and start telling the truth about the impact of adultery on our national life.

History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.

One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Something inside of me tells me that being homosexual is probably wrong.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.

I guess this place is where your intellect changes. I guess it's no behavior-modification place. but a history tutor said Harvard used to be . . . worried as much about the students' morality, their character, as . . . exams.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part - watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Shane rode in a thoughtful silence. He had never much believed in God. He believed in Hell, for he had seen it with his own eyes, but to even think that there was a great and powerful benevolent force watching over mankind, like a distant but loving father, had always struck him as childishly optimistic.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

Never take anything that doesn't belong to you or that you haven't earned," he said, sliding into the car. "You never know who you're stealing from, and what that money means to them.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.