Quotes about Morality
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
— Thomas Jefferson
As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?
— Denzel Washington
So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
— Soren Kierkegaard
Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
— Graham Greene
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
— Jerry Falwell
Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.
— Joseph Addison
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
— Joseph Addison