Quotes About Morality

My mother imparted on me that I must be a good custodian of my father's name and that is what I ask of my children. One should conduct themselves in the correct manner, respect one's elders and do the right thing.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

You don't see many bad guys fight amongst themselves. Bad guys always know exactly who they are and what they want. Good guys are the ones who are a little confused about their identities.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

At the end of the day, if you feel like you're a good person, and your intentions are good, then that's all that matters.

I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.

I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action' is to develop a natural-law ethics based on nature rather than, or at least to supplement, ethics based on theological revelation.

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.