Quotes about Morality
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
— Seneca
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
— Thomas Jefferson
A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
— Kent Hughes
Conscience is a man's compass.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The clergymen call us sinners, conceived and born in sin. Bah! What confounded nonsense that is. Is it a sin to love, to feel the need for love, not to be able to live without love? I consider a life without love a sinful and immoral state.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
— Ernest Hemingway
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.
— John Milton
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle