Quotes about Morality
Evil often thrives in the absence of an authentic righteous standard.
— Bill Johnson
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
— Albert Bandura
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
— St. Augustine
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
— Harriet Tubman
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
— Samuel Johnson
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
— Billy Sunday
You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
— JC Ryle
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?
— Ken Ham