Quotes About Morality

You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair in love an war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously; then, the rules of battle become more stringent. The politics that lead to war can always be argued, but there is an undeniable sympathy that must be extended when a woman leaves a man.

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.

It wasn't a big deal to marry your half-brother in those times; there just weren't enough people on earth for people to start getting picky about incest.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God's teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father's doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

Villains arise from intellectualism without spirituality: a vivid manifestation of the Antichrist. Obviously, the villain, in and for itself, is the Antichrist.

There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really

Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

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

Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

The evil that men do lives after them. Yes, and a good deal of the evil that they never did as well.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

Besides so long as a man has not been actually killed he is our fellow-creature, though perhaps a very unpleasant one.

There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.

a good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally followed by ill consequences to the parents themselves. They may cast a gloom over their children's lives for many years without having to suffer anything that will hurt them. I should say, then, that it shows no great moral obliquity on the part of parents if within certain limits they make their children's lives a burden to them.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.