Quotes about Morality

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.

People who do their duty are always finally rewarded.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,' I continued, 'if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Taking account of the value of externals, you see, comes at some cost to the value of one's own character.