Quotes about Morality
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
— Thomas Merton
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
— William Hazlitt
The wealthiest man among us is the best
— William Wordsworth
Only men of character are trusted.
— Zig Ziglar
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
— Confucius
The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
— Confucius
Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.
— David Jeremiah
We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.
— David O. McKay
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
— George Eliot
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
— GK Chesterton
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
— Albert Camus