Quotes about Morality
Love is the great conqueror of lust. Being in love is far better than either common sensuality or cold self-centeredness.
- CS Lewis
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
- Marquis de Sade
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
- Marquis de Sade
Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
- Marquis de Sade
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
- Martin Luther
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
- Martin Luther
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
- Martin Luther
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther
We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people
- Martin Luther
A unjust law, is no law at all.
- Martin Luther
many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
- Martin Luther
Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.
- Martin Luther