Quotes About Morality

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.

I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.