Quotes About Morality

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.

The time is always right to do right

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

I always felt, you don't have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

There is no other way to know good from evil, right from wrong, unless we have His Word dwelling richly in our heart. It's good for us to spend time in His Word.

I can't do it, Uncle Richard, I said. You can. You have it in you to do it. You're a good person. I'm not. I don't want to be a good person. I started to cry. He held me close then. And what he said surprised me. What makes you think any of us want to be good people, Ebie? You know, I never agreed with these Puritan preachers, who tell us we're all inherently bad. I think we're all inherently good. And we fight against it, all our lives.

Your uncle Lawrence is a very moral man. He knows, in his heart, what is right. And he'll do it, no matter what people say of him. I nodded. But how do we know when we're doing the right thing, Father? He drew up the horse's reins in front of our house. We don't always, Ebie. Answers don't come easily. At least they never have, to me. I've done many a wrong thing in my time. But I've always tried to make up for it.

If, as many people believe today, Ted Bundy took lives, he also saved lives. I know he did, because I was there when he did it.

Loyalty, usually an admirable trait, is not always a good thing—not when it is blind and when the object of that loyalty is undeserving.

Guilt has no right to profit by the generosity of the guiltless.