Quotes about Morality
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
- CS Lewis
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
- CS Lewis
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
- Pope John Paul II
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
- Herman Melville
Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
- James G. Frazer
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
- Vance Havner
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
- William Osler
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
- Charles Hodge