Quotes about Morality

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.

It feels like people will poke a spear in anyplace they can draw blood these days. It wasn't that way when I was growing up. Even in politics, people had some…" I search for the word, and the best thing I can come up with is "decency.

A man who doesn't stand for what is right dies his own death well before it happens.

Tough times make good people and bad people.

That's what I'd say in my essay about To Kill a Mockingbird, I decided. I'd make sure the English teacher knew that the story of Jem and Scout and Atticus Finch wasn't just words someone made up in a book. There were people who lived it—people of all different

Chances are, each one of us can relate to that story in some way. We all care about the human element, the part that's timeless. But we also care about those turning points in history, those social mores that we can't believe were accepted just a generation ago. We want to believe we would never have stood for it ourselves, had we been there.

Conscience is a formidable and determined adversary. By nature, it strikes the weakest point in a man's reasoning.

And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW