Quotes About Morality

The Larks were bumbling entrepreneurs and petty thieves, but they were also self-deceived. While their moral standards for the rest of the world were rigid, they were always able to find excuses for their own shortcomings. It is these people really, said my father, small-time hypocrites, who may in special cases be capable of monstrous acts if given the chance.

While their moral standards for the rest of the world were rigid, they were always able to find excuses for their own shortcomings. It is these people really, said my father, small-time hypocrites, who may in special cases be capable of monstrous acts if given the chance.

Many people in the mid–nineteenth century kept such journals to enforce thrift and also objectify their moral performance.

There is no essential difference between religion and morality except that the one is more intense and passionate than the other.

He saw that money could bring majesty in the moral as well as secular sphere, which excited him more than fancy estates or clothes.

He was also accused of mixing the lawless and the honorable, of ignoring ethical niceties, in a manner reminiscent of his father.

Whenever he was about to commit some particularly heinous act, he first found a character flaw in the victim then proceeded with a serene conscience.

businessmen respected them for their honest dealings.

begged the larger question of whether people should accept money gained by what they deemed unscrupulous means.

As in the American south, an exaggerated sense of romantic honor may have been an unconscious way for slaveholders to flaunt their moral superiority, purge pent-up guilt, and cloak the brutish nature of their trade.

After all, the devil's work was now sprinkled with holy water.

What makes him so problematic—and why he continues to inspire such ambivalent reactions—is that his good side was every bit as good as his bad side was bad.

In a small Southern town during the 1950s, elopement and divorce were serious moral transgressions deserving of punishment.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.

Morality in the long run aligned with strategy.

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count. Speech, New York City, December 12, 1983

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."1

La guerra es una porquería no sólo derriba casas, sino también los principios más elevados.

En lo que se divide de verdad la humanidad es entre buena y mala gente. Entre las personas que son capaces de ponerse en el lugar de los otros y sufrir con ellos y alegrarse con ellos, y los hijos de puta que sólo buscan su propio beneficio, que sólo saben mirarse la barriga. Esos que son capaces de vender a su madre, ya me entiendes" - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero