Quotes about Morality

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.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.