Quotes About Morality

For us, people who are not privileged enough to have the freedom to be good people, we have to make some bad choices and do some evil things. That's shitty, but it is what it is.

A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

a young man whose birth, wealth, and consequent leisure made many habits venial which under other circumstances would have been inexcusable.

I think that when you see a woman who has sex power but chooses not to use it, she is someone you can trust. -'Cass

Humans exist but humanity doesn't.

There would be fewer problems and crimes in the world if people tell the truth even if the truth hurt.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience

Don't throw away your freedom by stealing a handcuff."

Self-esteem does not judge conscience because it is not responsible for right and wrong."

The conscience that only thinks about appearance does not suffer the consequence."

The day will come when people will be prosecuted for doing good.

The thief thinks it right to steal, but thinks it wrong to be robbed.

A woman with a clear conscience is free to pursue her own style.

Conscience cannot convince self-esteem of bad character.

Three quarters of these people know Instinctively what ought to be The nature of society And how they'd live there if they could. If it were easy to be good, And cheap, and plain as evil, how, We all would be its members now...

A man without mysticism becomes a monster.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.