Quotes about Morality
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.
— Pope Benedict XVI
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.
— Marcel Pagnol
How goodness heightens beauty!
— Milan Kundera
Even the most despicable person is still a human being.
— Stellan Skarsgard
And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
— Graham Greene
He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.
— Graham Greene
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
Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.
— Graham Greene
Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.
— Graham Greene
His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.
— Graham Greene
It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it.
— Graham Greene