Morality Quotes

"To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral."

- Leo Tolstoy

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

- Howard Zinn

"Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins."

- Robert C. Winthrop

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

- Oscar Wilde

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

- Socrates

"Nothing is to be preferred before justice."

- Socrates

"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."

- Matthew 7:12

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."

- Oscar Wilde

"And in the end what’s more important, being right or being kind?"

- Ted Lasso

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

- Oscar Wilde

""Whoever robs their father or drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace.""

- Proverbs 19:26 (NIV)

"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it."

- St. Augustine

"I have a little different definition of evil than most people — When you have the opportunity and the ability to do good and you do nothing, that’s evil. Evil doesn’t always have to be an overt act, it can be merely the absence of good."

- Yvon Chouinard

"It is against the principles of human rights to bully another human being."

- Shenita Etwaroo

"It is only human to make mistakes, however, it is awfully inhuman to err upon others."

- Trent Lindsey

"“What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; that is the whole Law: the rest is interpretation.”"

- Hillel

"“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”"

- Voltaire

"“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone his due.”"

- Justinian I

"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

- Mark Twain

"That general warrants, whereby an officer of messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted."

- Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776

"Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional…..All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle."

- Earl Warren

"Anything less than full justice is cruelty."

- William Penn

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

- William Shakespeare

"Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down."

- Toby Forward

"I've known good criminals and bad cops."

- Mike Ehrmantraut

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."

- Erich Fromm

"No man can claim that he is absolutely in the right or that a particular thing is wrong because he thinks so, but it is wrong for him so long as that is his deliberate judgment. It is therefore meet that he should not do that which he knows to be wrong, and suffer the consequence whatever it may be."

- Erik H. Erikson

"You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking."

- Maya Angelou

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."