Quotes about Morality
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
— Oscar Wilde
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
— Thomas a Kempis
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