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Quotes About Morality

I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.
~ Rolf Harris
I am a firm believer in slavery.
~ Brigham Young
I firmly believe in the sanctity of life.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
~ Eric Schmidt
I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place.
~ Mickey Cohen
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.'
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
~ Bhumibol Adulyadej
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
~ William S. Paley
When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
~ James E. Faust
The average person tells a few white lies.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.
~ Margaret Keane
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
~ Alexander Smith
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
~ Dante Alighieri
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
~ Immanuel Kant
A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man.
~ Antonin Scalia
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
~ William Godwin
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
~ Joss Whedon
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
~ Abu Bakr
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
~ Lao Tzu
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
~ Jesus Christ