Quotes About Morality

I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.

A person who aspires to goodness will come to useful realizations.

Si el demonio supiera amar, dejaría de ser malvado

I want to say something but shame prevents me yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

For the man who is beautiful is beautiful to see but the good man will at once also beautiful be

He who is beautiful is so only when seen, but he who is good is beautiful at once.

rikkaus ilman hyvettä on vaarallista; mutta molempien yhtymisestä seuraa korkein onni

A handsome man is good to look at, but a good man will be handsome as well.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor but by mixing both you are on the peak of joy.

To have beauty is to have only that, but to have goodness is to be beautiful too" As translated by Suzy Q. Groden in Sappho: Poems (1966)

Oh, yes," Anna said. "I would like to know what measures you advocate." He stood a little straighter. "The first problem is the influx of the worst of Europe. The moral and intellectual dregs must be turned away. If such a policy had been put in place at the right time, Michael and Dylan Joyce would have been born in Ireland, and feeding them would not fall to us.

There ain't nothing like religion to bring out the worst in folks.

The Joyces down the lane are always in trouble because the men can't keep their trousers buttoned and the women are just as bad

Karma is not a sentence already printed. It is a series of words that authors can arrange as she chooses.

Psalm 52:3: "You love evil rather than good, and falsehood rather than truth.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.

Just because she's vegan doesn't mean she wouldn't murder someone.

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.

For the story that shapes a child's universe also shapes the child—and by the child, the man thereafter. The memory of a burning fairy tale can govern behavior as truly as remembered fire will caution against fire forever. —WALTER WANGERIN

They didn't understand that evil could grow if planted in a field of banal cruelty.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.