Quotes About Morality

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

I'm always fascinated by people when they reach that fork in the road, where they can make a moral choice.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

I never made a fortune by defrauding others.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

I like fighting clean. I've always fought clean, and I want to fight clean people. I want to fight fair.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Nobody has a franchise on what is good.

It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.

A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me.

You don't have to be a criminal to write about fraud!

Free enterprise cannot only make us better off financially, it can make us better people.

It's not OK to condone violence because of free speech.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.

I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.

The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.