Quotes About Morality

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?

Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Love is more just than justice.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.