Quotes About Morality

The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote.

The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.

All those men have their price.

I don't like to say things that I wouldn't want to say to someone's face. Those are my morals for life.

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the human organism proceeds through life sustained on every side by bonds of mutual interest.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Of a thousand people, someone's not a good guy.

Father Chantry-Pigg thought it would be wrong to go to Russia, because of condoning the government, which was persecuting Christians. But aunt Dot said if one started not condoning governments, one would have to give up travel altogether, and even remaining in Britain would be pretty difficult.