Quotes About Morality

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Sometimes there was a difference between the law and justice, and sometimes justice had to step outside the law. The proof of that, he thought just before he fell asleep, was that he didn't work for the Department of Law; he worked for the Department of Justice…and Justice had been served.

If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept his water for himself?

Petronius would take his free bread buns and run. I happened to know that since Petro had been elected to the watch he had never cast a vote. He believed a man on a public salary should be impartial. I didn't agree but I admired him being so stubborn in his eccentricities. Aufidius Crispus would be an unusual politician if he had allowed for such morality in the voters he was courting.

Olympus, of course not! If you are to be a politician, your natural medium is lying. Surely your agent has explained that?

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

It is easy to possess a conscience, Monsieur, when one only needs to talk or write about it. But the man, who has to act is constantly faced with the necessity, if he wishes to deal justly with one person, of being unjust to somebody else.

People who have manifested the greatest physical courage, in actual fact, not seldom fail when it comes to showing a little moral courage.

Dreiser's literary faults, it gives us to understand, are essentially social and political virtues.

fail a stringent code of ethics and that none of us was capable of earning a place of honor.

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. He took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good.

Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

If we can feel confident in our goodness, it will illuminate our life and society

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.