Quotes about Morality
Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Love God, and do what you like.
— St. Augustine
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.
— DL Moody
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
— St. Augustine
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
— Mark Twain
Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
— Mortimer Adler
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