Quotes about Morality

Exert yourself ceaselessly in decreasing evil and accumulating good.

Therefore, pursue your course bravely. Your conscience is at least your own, and to follow it is to be a man; to follow the conscience of another is to be a slave.

Francis is at the mercy of an incoherent Catholic morality about all kinds of sexual expression, and he seems incapable of bringing the needed moral clarity and essential new structure of accountability. That incoherence in ethics and morality is itself essential to the malignant culture of clericalism that imprisons many, including the Pope.

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.

The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold.

A slap from an angel will make you wiserthan a kiss from the devil.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.