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Quotes About Morality

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent
~ Nelson Mandela
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved
~ Tibor R. Machan
Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.
~ Sai Baba
They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
~ Stephen King, The Long Walk
Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.
~ K. Hari Kumar
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.
~ Guo Moruo
We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.
~ Dwight L. Moody
In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil
~ Milton Friedman
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.
~ Donald Sterling
Homosexuals want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!
~ Beverly LaHaye
Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will
~ Martin Wolf
Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.
~ David L. Bazelon
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
~ David Hume
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
~ Fatima bint Muhammad
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
~ Emma Goldman
A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.
~ Benjamin Hart
Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
~ Bill O'Reilly
The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.
~ Ella T. Grasso
Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld