Quotes about Morality
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
- Aldous Huxley
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
- St. Augustine
Without freedom there can be no morality.
- Carl Jung
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
- William Barclay
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
- Muqtada al Sadr
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
- CS Lewis
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
- Os Guinness
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
- Henry David Thoreau
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
- Edmund Burke
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
- Cicero