Quotes about Morality
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
— Cicero
God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.
— Martin Luther
We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.
— Martin Luther
I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Conscience is God present in man.
— Victor Hugo
Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?
— Victor Hugo
To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
— Victor Hugo
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.
— Elie Wiesel
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
— George Eliot
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
— Lou Holtz
We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
— Aristotle