Quotes About Morality

Courageous leaders obey God rather than men and will be rewarded, they are honest law-abiding citizens.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral

Liberty is a duty, not a right

Pues se me parece a los pensamientos del hombre perverso. Parece que somos la intuición del malo, cuando penetra en su conciencia para verse en toda su fealdad.

Don Francisco Penáguilas, padre del joven, era un hombre más que bueno, era inmejorable, superiormente discreto, bondadoso, afable, honrado y magnánimo, no falto de instrucción.

Oh, señora condesa, parece que ha adivinado usted mi pensamiento! Como usted, yo he observado la corrupción de las costumbres, hija de la desenvoltura francesa; como usted, he observado el descuido de las madres, la ceguera de los padres, la malicia de las tías, la complicidad de las primas y la debilidad de las abuelas; y he dicho: «orden, rigor, cautela, reclusión, tiranía, o si no dentro de poco la sociedad se precipitará en los abismos del pecado».

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

No creo que nadie sea bueno o malo del todo. Somos una mezcla y actuamos de acuerdo a las circunstancias en que nos encontramos.

para comer con el demonio hace falta una cuchara muy larga.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Fools keep their moral code in a compact and indivisible whole so that it may interfere as little as possible with their actions and leave them their freedom in all matters of detail.

Justice is truth in action. ~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

An innocent Plowman is more worthy than a vicious Prince.

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.