Quotes about Morality

Anyone on the side of truth, wherever it led, was a compatriot to be lauded.

The Bonhoeffers raised their children to do the right thing, so when they behaved selflessly and bravely, it was difficult to argue.

They understood that freedom was not merely the freedom to be left alone; it was the freedom to do what was right.

The suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners.

Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.