Quotes about Morality

Therefore, pursue your course bravely. Your conscience is at least your own, and to follow it is to be a man; to follow the conscience of another is to be a slave.

Francis is at the mercy of an incoherent Catholic morality about all kinds of sexual expression, and he seems incapable of bringing the needed moral clarity and essential new structure of accountability. That incoherence in ethics and morality is itself essential to the malignant culture of clericalism that imprisons many, including the Pope.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.

A slap from an angel will make you wiserthan a kiss from the devil.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.