Quotes about Morality

We will receive the fruits of any act we have done, whether wholesome or unwholesome.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

if you remove the cross from Christianity, all that remains is some wise moral teaching not terribly different from any other religion.

But if someone's character has no foundation, there's nothing to build on.