Quotes about Morality
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
- Anne Frank
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.
- AW Pink
The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
- Alphonsus Liguori
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
- Elie Wiesel
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
- Os Guinness
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
- Origen
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
- George Bernard Shaw
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
- CS Lewis
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!
- David Brainerd
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
- James Madison