Quotes About Morality

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.

There are so many things in my life that would be completely not on within the conservative church. And yet I think of myself as a reasonably decent human being. With all sorts of flaws, you know, but still reasonably decent. If I did believe in Heaven and Hell, I would really, honestly, believe I was going to go to Heaven.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

We do things for good reasons that are bad.

People can do bad things for good reasons, or for what they think are good reasons.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.

Next to financial impropriety, being charged with a reckless pursuit of women is certainly the most damaging thing you can accuse a public person of.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious... I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

A jurist can obey the letter of the law and violate its spirit, or it can follow the spirit of the law and violate the letter of the law. I want someone who can reconcile the letter and the spirit of the law without partisan leanings.

Many say that a man comes along with the moral courage of Nelson Mandela once in a lifetime. He was an extraordinary man who paid a great sacrifice for his beliefs, then led a nation from the prospect of civil war to reconciliation.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.