Quotes about Morality
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
— Albert Schweitzer
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
— Thomas Jefferson
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
— William Hazlitt
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Revenge is an inhuman word.
— Seneca
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Heaven itself has ordained the right.
— George Washington
I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
— Jimmy Carter
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
— Ernest Hemingway