Quotes about Morality
While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
— Albert Camus
There is explosive power in virtue.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
— Frank Herbert
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
— Robert Frost
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
— St. John Chrysostom
Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.
— Joe Biden
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
— Origen
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
— Abraham Lincoln
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
— George Bernard Shaw