Quotes about Morality
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
— John Quincy Adams
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
— Thomas Merton
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
— William Hazlitt
The wealthiest man among us is the best
— William Wordsworth
Only men of character are trusted.
— Zig Ziglar
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
— Confucius
The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
— Confucius
Men are not sent to hell because of being murderers or liars, they are sent to hell because they are unrighteous.
— David Jeremiah
We must not close our eyes to the fact that there are conspiring men who would pollute young boys, and girls of corresponding age, for sake of increasing profits.
— David O. McKay
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
— George Eliot