Quotes about Morality
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
- Confucius
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
- John Adams
Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
- Ronald Reagan
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
- Confucius
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?
- Ronald Reagan
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
- Hillary Clinton
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
- George Eliot
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
- Albert Camus