Quotes about Morality
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
— Aristotle
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
— Epicurus
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
— CS Lewis
Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.
— Rich Wilkerson Jr.
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
— Sonny Bono
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
— St. Jerome
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
— Khalil Gibran
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
— Euripides
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
— George Eliot
I'm a good woman for a bad man.
— Mae West
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
— Brigham Young
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
— Reinhold Niebuhr