Quotes about Morality
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
- John Adams
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
- Joseph Addison
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
- Laurence Sterne
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
- Confucius
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
- Desmond Tutu
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
- George Bernard Shaw
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
- GK Chesterton
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
- Mark Twain
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
- Max Lucado
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
- Abraham Lincoln
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
- Aristotle