Quotes About Morality

I personally wonder... regardless of whether you're a religious person or not, everybody comes into every conversation with a particular worldview and things that you believe are right or wrong. The question is can you counsel from a totally non-value-based position?

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made.

At the end of the day, I know I'm a good person, so I'm not worried about anything bad that could happen on the Internet.

Anybody that worries about somebody suing them, that means that they're so crooked that they sue people, and they think people are gonna sue them.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

There are people who curse worse than me and want to hide it all, but I ain't no hypocrite.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

The better day, the worse deed.

It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.