Quotes about Morality

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

Self-Righteousness

We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich

Men become old, but they never become good.