Morality Quotes

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.

When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.

Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.