Quotes about Morality
A bad person's character cannot be trusted, it's weak and indecisive, easily won over by different impressions at different times.
- Epictetus
He didn't care; it was not his skin he wanted to save, but the man of honour and integrity. These things are not open to compromise or negotiation.
- Epictetus
The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
- Amy Grant
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Andrew Carnegie
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
- Pope Benedict XVI
To seek the highest good is to live well.
- St. Augustine
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
- Charles Colson
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
- JC Ryle
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
- St. Augustine
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
- Pope Benedict XVI