logo

Quotes About Morality

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
~ Sergio Aragones
What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
~ Emo Philips
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
~ Charles Darwin
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
~ Confucius
Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
~ Mother Teresa
If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.
~ Jon Foreman
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
~ Confucius
I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I'm not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.
~ Abdullah ibn Mubarak
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.
~ Thomas S. Monson
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
~ John Henry Newman
He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.
~ Joseph Goebbels
The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.
~ Peter Wessel Zapffe
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The world we live in will be either better or worse depending on whether we become better or worse.
~ Paulo Coelho
Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love.
~ Jason Evert
Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.
~ John Wesley
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.
~ Katy Perry
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
~ Confucius