Quotes about Morality
It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
— Madeleine Albright
This generosity of spirit-this caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal-is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive. It is a capacity that can be found in most people, but it is not always nurtured and is sometimes, for a period, brutally crushed.
— Madeleine Albright
Something has gone wrong in us, very wrong indeed. So wrong that we have to be told that joy is found not in having another man's wife, but in having our own. But the point is not the law; the point is the joy.
— John Eldredge
When it comes to the moral question, it is not simply whether we say yes or no to desire, but always what we do with desire. Christianity recognizes that we have desire gone mad within us. But it does not seek to rectify the problem by killing desire; rather, it seeks the healing of desire, just as it seeks the healing of every other part of our human being.
— John Eldredge
This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not.
— John Eldredge
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.
— John F. Kennedy
there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.
— John F. Kennedy
We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.
— Jesse Jackson
The ecological crisis is a moral issue.
— Pope John Paul II
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.
— Leonard Sweet
When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.
— Joel Osteen
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
— Ambrose of Milan