Quotes about Morality
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
— Aristotle
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
— Euripides
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
— St. Augustine
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
— Joseph Campbell
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
— Ambrose of Milan
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
— George Bernard Shaw
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
— GK Chesterton
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
— Herman Melville
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
— Confucius
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
— CS Lewis