Quotes About Morality

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.

Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human

Sin is the preclusion of self-worth.

True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.