Quotes about Morality

A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people and our country want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.

It seems somewhat illogical to say, You have violated God's commandment 'Thou shalt not kill,' so therefore I will kill you.

There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object.

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

Conscience is a man's compass.

The clergymen call us sinners, conceived and born in sin. Bah! What confounded nonsense that is. Is it a sin to love, to feel the need for love, not to be able to live without love? I consider a life without love a sinful and immoral state.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.