Quotes About Morality

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Money and virtue must always be combined.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.