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Quotes About Morality

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
~ Hannah More
There is even the dignity of vice.
~ Antoine Rivarol
When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.
~ Fausto Cercignani
What is dignity without honesty?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.
~ Tariq Ramadan
This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.
~ Shmuley Boteach
Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.
~ Steve Maraboli
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
~ C.S. Lewis
We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
~ Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
~ Desmond Tutu
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
~ David O. McKay
It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
~ Immanuel Kant
The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
~ Aristotle
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
~ William James
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
~ John Ruskin
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
~ George H. W. Bush
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.
~ Russell Kirk
Character is the most precious gift of education.
~ Sai Baba