Quotes about Morality

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

The world is increasing in wickedness.

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.