Quotes About Morality

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.