Quotes about Morality
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
— Cicero
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
— Martin Luther
We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn't wicked.
— RC Sproul Jr.
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
— St. Augustine
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
— Samuel Johnson
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
— Samuel Johnson
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
— Aristotle
Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.
— Aristotle
I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.
— Ronald Reagan
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
— St. Augustine
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— St. Augustine