Moral Identity Quotes

I think I am a moral man.

I don't believe I'm bad, and I do believe I'm good.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

By no means am I as moral as Clark Kent, by no means at all. I made a lot of mistakes and done a lot of things that are in no way, shape, or form Superman- or Clark Kent-esque. But generally, I live my life that way and try to.

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

I like to think of myself as a genuinely good person.

We are all more than the sum of our sins.

To God what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans—what?

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.

Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

I'm a basically decent person.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

I consider myself a relatively moral guy

I'd like to think I'm a good guy as I've gotten older.

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.