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Quotes about Morality

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
— Tony Campolo
The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
— Rick Warren
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
— Albert Camus
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Happiness is a moral obligation.
— Dennis Prager
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
— RC Sproul
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
— Joseph Addison
There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
— Samuel Johnson
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
— Thomas Jefferson