Quotes about Morality
Say the truth and shame the devil.
— Hugh Latimer
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
— Shimon Peres
When morality comes up against profit, it's seldom profit that loses.
— Shirley Chisholm
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
— Jonathan Edwards
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
— Pope John Paul II
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
— Ayn Rand
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.
— Ayn Rand
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
— Confucius
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
— Marcus Aurelius
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love
— Martin Luther King, Jr.