Quotes about Morality

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.