Morality Quotes

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

To harm another is to harm oneself.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.