Quotes About Morality

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. 1743-1826 THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AUTHOR OF THE U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

One night the revenue agents outmaneuvered the Palm Island security men and we all wound up in jail. I was mortified. My parents would disown me if they found out I had been put in jail with a bunch of common violators of the prohibition law. We were only there three hours, but it was one of the most uncomfortable 180-minute periods of my life. That

La mejor ventaja en esta vida, añadí, es tener la conciencia bien tranquila.

the imagination to see, the strength to achieve, and an absolutely incorruptible moral integrity'.

The problem with Israel was her compartmentalized religion. She was oblivious to the actual moral nature of her many compromises, "desensitized to desecration", as long as she kept up the outward rites of Israelite religion.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

The final mark of a saint is not perfection, but lived virtue. It is the striving for holiness throughout the arc of a life that makes a saint.

So then, the striking thing about the laws of the Old Testament is not that some of them are beneath the modern conscience but that they are above the other law codes of the ancient world. As

"A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy," he said dryly.

A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

God doesn't care about what you eat or what you drink. He doesn't care about how often you pray to him or what words you use or where you go to do that....He only cares about how you behave towards one another.

maybe we don't need a heavenly bribe or the fear of hell and damnation to make us behave decently. Maybe it would be healthier if people started believing in themselves instead.

The most serious dangers emanate from those for whom the moral high ground is a platform for self-advancement, many of whom have never borne, or have been willing to bear, the responsibilities that weigh on the daily life of practitioners.

She had learned that evil had the fattest wallet and most chaste face of all.

Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.

Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from his forehead. God made this money - the fresh air, too - for his children's use. He never made the difference between poor and rich.

Omul, atunci can e desavarsit, este cel mai bun dintre fiinte, dar atunci cand e lipsit de lege si dreptate, devine cel mai rau dintre toate, caci nedreptatea care dispune de arme este cea mai primejdioasa; iar omul este inzestrat la nastere cu arme menite a fi fosite cu inteligenta si virtute, dar pe care el le poate pune in slujba scopurilor celor mai rele.

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.