Quotes about Morality
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
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
— Thomas Jefferson
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
— Cicero
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
— Cicero
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
— Marquis de Sade
Character is what a man is in the dark.
— DL Moody
we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which
— Madeleine L'Engle
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...
— Walt Disney