Quotes about Morality
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
— Mark Twain
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
— Mark Twain
It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.
— Martin Luther
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
— Martin Luther
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man only has a soul to be won or lost.
— Paulo Coelho
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
— Publilius Syrus
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
— Reinhold Niebuhr