Quotes about Morality

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

America has swerved from its ethical center.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.

To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.