Quotes About Morality

The hospitals and graveyards are filled with those who refused to acknowledge the virtues of physical morality.

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.

Sincerity is the sum of all moral qualities.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.

A superhero defends what is just; a villain defends what is theirs.

He no longer clung to the simplistic ideals of right and wrong or good and evil. He understood better than anyone that dark and light were intertwined in strange and complex ways.

What happened to the others?" she wanted to know. "I killed them," he replied. Zannah seemed to think about this for a moment before shrugging indifferently. "Then they were weak," she said with simple conviction. "And they deserved to die.

You think God created the world?" he asks me. "Bullshit. Any kind of benevolent and righteous being would never create a fucking world like this. It's impossible. God didn't fucking create the world." Before he walks away completely, he turns back to me one final time, pointing his finger at me. Some people on the beach look over. "Henry," he says, "the Devil created the world when God wasn't looking" He kicks down the little kids' sand castle and goes somewhere with the girls.

We're all martyrs and we're all villains. That's the truth for everything, because it's all subjective. It's all relative.

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

If the eight worldly concerns are harbored within yet you outwardly appear as a spiritual practitioner, any material benefit you might gain as a result of such deceit amounts to wrong livelihood.

Sandel therefore concludes that a just society is not one that seeks to adjudicate disputes between individuals from a morally neutral perspective, but one that facilitates debate about what the appropriate moral perspective ought to be. As Sandel acknowledges, this is likely to be a messy affair and always a work in progress, but he does not see any way around it.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.