Quotes about Morality
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
— Oscar Wilde
The preachers who preach the beauty of truth, honesty and a useful, helpful life, I am with, head, heart and hand. The preachers who declare that there can be no such thing as a beautiful life unless it will accept superstition, I am against, tooth, claw, club, tongue and pen.
— Elbert Hubbard
The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
— GK Chesterton
Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
— Graham Greene
We must never confuse the positive things that America does with the kingdom of God, for the kingdom of God is not centered on being morally, politically, or socially positive *relative* to other versions of the kingdom of the world. Rather, the kingdom of God is centered on being *beautiful*, as defined by Jesus Christ dying on a cross for those who crucified him.
— Gregory Boyd
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The oppressed…have a higher moral right to challenge their oppressors than these have to maintain their rule by force."
— James H. Cone
Freedom means taking sides in a crisis situation, when a society is divided into oppressed and oppressors. In this situation we are not permitted the luxury of being on neither side by making a decision that only involves the self.
— James H. Cone
But secular-ism, more than any other single word, aptly describes the mental framework and value structure of the people of our time.
— James Montgomery Boice
Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
— Joseph Brodsky
When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only makes sense to love the place where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.
— Jesse Lee Peterson