Quotes about Morality

People who love their enemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is—nor yet so good a Christian.

when good people do good, and evil people do evil, it is not surprising. But when good people do evil, it takes religion to do that.

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.

Reverence for Life," he wrote. Ethics, Schweitzer decided, was nothing more than that. "Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.

The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom.

We see them reporting the words and actions of a man who called them to as exacting a level of integrity as any religion has ever known. They were willing to live out their beliefs even to the point of ten of the eleven remaining disciples being put to grisly deaths, which shows great character. "In terms of honesty, in terms of truthfulness, in terms of virtue and morality, these people had a track record that should be envied.

Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.