Quotes About Morality

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

Sore laborers have hard hands and old sinners have brawny consciences.

All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....

Where we can open up new opportunities for women's self-expression, enjoyment, and achievement we should do it because it is morally right. But that is very different from saying that gender has no biological basis and that the nature of men and women is wholly constructed by society. The problem with such a position is that it fails to address the issue of why sex differences take the particular form that they do.

She said, When you see these horrible images why do you stay with them? Why keep watching? Why not go away? I was amazed. Go away where? I said.

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

If a sportsman true you'd be Listen carefully to me; Never, never let your gun Pointed be at anyone; That it might unloaded be Matters not the least to me. You may hit or you may miss, But at all times think of this: All the game birds ever bred Won't pay for one man dead. Forty

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Not a bit. I don't hold with all that 'sins of the father' nonsense.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

For a moment David was tempted to think that perhaps there were no good people at all outside concentration camps, but then he reminded himself of the sailor and Angelo and the English people who might have been ignorant but were certainly not bad.

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

The strange boy looked astonished. "Why don't you fight then?" He asked crossly. "Because if I hit you back, I'd be no better than you are. I'd be just as rotten and worthless and I'd have no right to be free!

You will be my conscience, and I will be your shame.

perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act—because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.