Quotes about Morality
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
— Martin Niemoller
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
— Albert Schweitzer
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
— CS Lewis
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
— CS Lewis
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
— Martin Luther
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
— John Donne
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
— John Quincy Adams
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison