Quotes about Morality
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
— Epicurus
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
— Mother Teresa
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
— Frederick Buechner
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