Quotes About Morality

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Whether permitted to live to witness the abolition of slavery or not, I felt assured that, as I demanded nothing that was not clearly in accordance with justice and humanity, some time or other, if remembered at all, I should stand vindicated in the eyes of my countrymen.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular.

I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.'

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties.

I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

I lived by the motto, 'If you don't flirt, you die.' And flirt I did. I flirted with all women, be they actresses, producers, or 80-year-old grandmothers. I even flirted with those who were out of bounds, like the wives of some of my best friends, which especially revolts me.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Americans do not have to agree on everything, but we should be united on what we know is right and against what is wrong. And we all know that the Democrat Party is wrong, as is the liberal media who collude with them - wolves in sheep's clothing.

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

You should never put your hands on a woman, under any circumstances.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.