Quotes About Morality

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.