Quotes About Morality

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

The conscience of a people is their power.

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

Power is neither good nor evil.

Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .