Quotes About Morality

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.