Quotes About Morality

Men like that — when they know they won't be found out — they will do anything.

God is an idea, the devil is us.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

People are attracted more towards bad things because being good has been turned into a boring duty. No adrenaline & dopamine rush, no rewards!

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all.

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

The best parenting strives to educate their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE -- competitive, compassionate, void of greed, & striving to make a better world.

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

I won't trade humanity for patriotism.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.