Quotes about Morality

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

if you remove the cross from Christianity, all that remains is some wise moral teaching not terribly different from any other religion.

But if someone's character has no foundation, there's nothing to build on.

Sin never seems quite as shocking when it is known only to us; when we see how it looks or sounds to another, it is magnified ten times over.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

People really don't want such a direct encounter with God because then they have no excuse if they disobey Him. God's laws are so black-and-white. We'd rather be free to choose if we will follow Him in any given situation.