Quotes about Morality

I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

all clannishness is divisive...For all clannishness is the enemy of universal humanity. But to will only one thing, genuinely to will the Good, as an individual, to will to hold fast to God, which things each person without exception is capable of doing, this is what unites.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.

Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.