Morality Quotes

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

Don't change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality.

Your conscience is your morality, expressed.

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans.

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation

Right isn't always legal.

Danny: You can be as morally righteous as you want—in a vacuum—but throw in a second entity and you gotta start acting in response to the other.

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.

All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises.

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them?

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?

Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.

Life is a manifestation of the fundamental laws of physics, and in its highest form, life manifests the fundamental laws of physics as a human organism endowed with a capacity for moral judgement.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

Do what is right and be prepared to pay the price.

Values aren't buses, " she said shortly. "They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are. And I'd rather be touchy-feely than morally bankrupt.

If a bully mocks you, just think about your positive values compared to the bully and ignore his or her harsh comments.

...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.

It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.

A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments.

If words come upon our minds, we should express them in order to free ourselves from high anxiety.

The character of God is an unchanging Northstar five which to find our way through a world of moral complexity.

Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society.

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.