Quotes about Morality

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts... In my view, the great intellectual challenge facing conservatives is to make the case for morality at a time when many in the West have ceased to believe in an external moral order. The decline of belief in such an order is the most important political development of the past two centuries. Indeed, this decline has created the crisis of the West.

In Obama's America, the wealth creators are greedy, selfish, and materialistic while the wealth stealers are the most morally wonderful people in the country.

The morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.

For Alinsky, morality is a scam. Morality is the cloak of power. Activists appeal to the language of morality but recognize that it is a mere disguise. As Alinsky puts it, "Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times... In action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent with one's individual conscience... You do what you can with what you have, and then clothe it with moral garments."