Quotes about Morality
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
Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.
— John Maxwell
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
— Rick Warren