Quotes about Morality

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness, to stand up for what is right, and to respect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that strengthen our country.

Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities.

We don't need to be taught to lie, or to be selfish or cruel or vindictive—we need to be taught how not to.

anything you do in the dark. In other words, it's any act that you try to hide from others. So, what kind of person are you when the shades are drawn? That's really the question. "Integrity," as Dr. Werjonic used to say, "has no private life." But, of course, no one has complete integrity because everyone has things to hide. All of us act differently when no one is watching.