Quotes about Morality
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
— Polycarp
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
— Cicero
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
— Malcolm X
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
— Desmond Tutu
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
— Confucius
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
— CS Lewis
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
— Andy Stanley
Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
— David Starr Jordan