Quotes about Morality
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
- William Wilberforce
It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
- Martin Luther
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
- Charles Spurgeon
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
- Confucius
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
- Cicero
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
- Ludwig Borne
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
- Peter Kreeft
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
- Tertullian