Quotes about Morality
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
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
— Confucius
Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
— GK Chesterton
If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.
— Martin Luther