Quotes about Morality
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
— Abraham Lincoln
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
— CS Lewis
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
— Albert Camus
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
— Desmond Tutu
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
— Henry David Thoreau
Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.
— John Maxwell
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
— AW Tozer
Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
— Charles Dickens
It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.
— DL Moody