Quotes about Morality
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
— St. Augustine
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
— Joseph Campbell
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
— Ambrose of Milan
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
— George Bernard Shaw
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.
— Pope Francis
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
— GK Chesterton
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
— Herman Melville
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
— Confucius
Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.
— Pope Francis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
— CS Lewis
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
— David O. McKay