Quotes About Morality

Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.

The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

Monogamy and prostitution go together.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.