Quotes about Morality

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers.

What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

If the gods do a shameful thing, they are not gods.

Verily we must believe the Gods are senseless, if we feel well disposed to murderers.

We all must try to be good.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!

It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.