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Quotes About Morality

How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?
~ Alexander Pope
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
~ Jimmy Carter
Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?
~ Joseph Conrad
...And in freedom, most people find sin.
~ John Green
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Without Virtue there can be no liberty
~ Benjamin Rush
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
~ D. A. Carson
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.
~ Lenny Bruce
Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
~ Brigham Young
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
~ Gerald Seymour
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
~ Immanuel Kant
He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.
~ Quintus Ennius
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
~ Aldous Huxley
Freedom is a clear conscience.
~ Periander
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
~ Saint Augustine
absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.
~ Gertrude Himmelfarb
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
~ Benjamin Franklin