Quotes About Morality

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

Vices are their own punishment

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Conscience is God present in man.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.