Quotes About Morality

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

I am a crazy fan of movies like 'The Wild Bunch' or 'Wages of Fear,' where you're rooting for the bad guys.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

'Honey, I'm Good' is a song about temptation, and we wanted to show what is possible if you can beat it.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

There were times when I was tempted to do wrong, and could have went that way. But I knew it wasn't for me. I was told enough times that it catches up with you, and I believe it.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.