Quotes About Morality

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.

For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

Character is what you are in the dark.

I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.

I am pro-life. I hate the concept of abortion.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.