Quotes about Morality
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
— GK Chesterton
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
— GK Chesterton
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
— GK Chesterton
If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.
— Greg Koukl
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.
— Mahatma Gandhi
That which impels man to do the right thing is God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Few men are wantonly wicked.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
— Mark Twain