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Quotes About Morality

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.
~ Michele Bachmann
Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.
~ Philip Pullman
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
~ R. C. Sproul
He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
~ Saint Basil
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
~ Sophocles
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.
~ W. S. Gilbert
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.
~ G. Edward Griffin
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
~ Harry S. Truman
Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.
~ Jonathan Nolan
God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.
~ Cal Thomas
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
~ Confucius
Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.
~ Dean Norris
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
~ Harper Lee
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
~ James Anthony Froude
Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.
~ Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.
~ Vin Suprynowicz
Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.
~ Yiyun Li
I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.
~ Albert Einstein