Quotes about Morality
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
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