Quotes about Morality
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
- CS Lewis
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
- CS Lewis
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
- CS Lewis
I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.
- CS Lewis
Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.
- Coco Chanel
A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
- Confucius
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
- David O. McKay
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
- DL Moody
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
- Edmund Burke
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
- Edmund Burke
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
- Edmund Burke