Quotes about Morality
The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.
— Frank Herbert
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
— Frank Herbert
The realization that all religions had at least one common commandment: "Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.
— Frank Herbert
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be.
— Frank Herbert
A crime in one society can be a moral requirement in another society.
— Frank Herbert
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
— Peter Marshall
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
— Abraham Lincoln
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
— Ronald Reagan