Quotes about Morality
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
Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.
— James Freeman Clarke
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
— Edmund Burke
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot make men good by law.
— CS Lewis
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
— Epicurus