Quotes about Morality

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.

We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen; we need more of the things that are unseen

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place

A distinguishing taste of authentic Christians is their distaste for evil.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.