Quotes about Morality
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
- Thomas Paine
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
- CS Lewis
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
- Aristotle
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
- St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
- St. Augustine
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- Samuel Johnson
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
- Samuel Johnson
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
- William Faulkner
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
- Henry Ward Beecher