Quotes about Morality
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.
— John Milton
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
— John Tillotson
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.
— John Tillotson
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
— Mark Twain
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
— Mark Twain
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
— Publilius Syrus
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
— Oscar Wilde