Quotes About Morality

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.