What is permissible is not always honorable.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

When in doubt tell the truth.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Evil is whatever distracts.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.