Quotes about Morality
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
We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
— Earl Nightingale
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
— Euripides
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
— GK Chesterton
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
— John Wesley
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
— Joseph Heller
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
— Karl Barth