Quotes about Morality
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.
— Myles Munroe
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
— John Adams
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
— St. Augustine
Conscience is a man's compass.
— Vincent Van Gogh
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
— Confucius
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
— Dante Alighieri
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
— Frederick Douglass
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
— Aristotle
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
— Ayn Rand
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
— CS Lewis
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
— CS Lewis
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
— Dante Alighieri