Quotes about Morality

I never did think the truth was a crime.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.

By taking the lives of our young, and wounding the wombs and lives of their mothers, we are flying in the face of God. We cannot play God. If we continue down this path of destruction, we will be met at the gates by our own doom.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.