Quotes About Morality

I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.

I think virtually everyone wants to do good and be good and be decent to each other and pursue something that is valuable to them and meaningful.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Virtue is harmony.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.