Quotes about Morality
Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.
— Martin Luther King III
Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
— Thomas Jefferson
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
— Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
— Thomas Jefferson
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
— Thomas Jefferson
Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.
— Thomas Jefferson
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
— Thomas Jefferson
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just
— Thomas Jefferson
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
— Thomas Jefferson