Quotes about Morality

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.