Quotes about Morality

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The preachers who preach the beauty of truth, honesty and a useful, helpful life, I am with, head, heart and hand. The preachers who declare that there can be no such thing as a beautiful life unless it will accept superstition, I am against, tooth, claw, club, tongue and pen.

The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

We must never confuse the positive things that America does with the kingdom of God, for the kingdom of God is not centered on being morally, politically, or socially positive *relative* to other versions of the kingdom of the world. Rather, the kingdom of God is centered on being *beautiful*, as defined by Jesus Christ dying on a cross for those who crucified him.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

The oppressed…have a higher moral right to challenge their oppressors than these have to maintain their rule by force."

Freedom means taking sides in a crisis situation, when a society is divided into oppressed and oppressors. In this situation we are not permitted the luxury of being on neither side by making a decision that only involves the self.

But secular-ism, more than any other single word, aptly describes the mental framework and value structure of the people of our time.