Quotes About Morality

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done—trying to even the scales before they cross the river.

Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold

Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.

How we treat those who can't force us to be kind says everything about who we are as a people.

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

Life consists of achieving good not apart from evil but in spite of it.

If all of our actions and judgements stemmed from reflected, consciously endorsed beliefs and values then not only would the world be a better place, but this book would be several pages shorter .

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

All sin is equally wrong, but not all sin is equally bad.

Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.

human society," as C. S. Lewis puts it, "inside which minimum decency passes for heroic virtue and utter corruption for pardonable imperfection.

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

every act of man would from the very first have to be a moral act, an act of choice for or against God. Hence man would even in every act of knowledge manifest true righteousness and true holiness.

all a guy can do is die once. The big difference is whether he dies clean - or dirty... ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Murder is such an elastic term, isn't it? ("Mind Over Murder")

what is cruelty but the giving of pain in the taking of pleasure?