Quotes About Morality

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.

I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history of life, has chosen a criminal life. No one has ever said, 'I want to be a criminal.' No one ever has done that.

I think it's important to understand the history of the Republican Party. It was founded in 1854 because of the moral collapse of the Whig Party, specifically around the question of race and the expansion of slavery into the western territories.

The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.

The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.

The most important thing about my life is this integrity, and you can't lie to yourself.