Quotes about Morality

Make sure that your children don't follow you if you go to sin.

The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today

LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many black men is the primary cause of the breakdown of the black family, high crime rates, domestic violence, and other social problems within the black community.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt to slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.