Quotes about Morality
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
- Henry David Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
- Henry David Thoreau
If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
- Herbert Hoover