Morality Quotes

"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted."

- Jesus

"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you."

- Jesus

"If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity."

- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet

"Whoever robs their father or drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace."

- Proverbs 19:26 (NIV)

""Never put passion before principle. Even if win, you lose.""

- Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid

"Passover has a message for the conscience and the heart of all mankind. For what does it commemorate? It commemorates the deliverance of a people from degrading slavery, from most foul and cruel tyranny. And so, it is Israel’s—nay, God’s protest against unrighteousness, whether individual or national."

- Rabbi Morris Joseph

"No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"There is no first strike in karate."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender."

- Rickson Gracie

""The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.""

- Mas Oyama

""Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep.""

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power."

- Amit Kalantri

"Without justice there can be no love."

- Bell Hooks

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

- Dante Alighieri

"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand."

- Bertolt Brecht

"The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle."

- Frederick Lewis Donaldson

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

- C. S. Lewis

"No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed … except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."

- Magna Carta, 1215

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

- Marcus Aurelius

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

- Seneca

"He who spares the wicked injures the good."

- Seneca

"For mankind, evil is injustice and cruelty and indifference to a neighbour’s trouble, while virtue is brotherly love and goodness and justice and beneficence and concern for the welfare of your neighbour-with."

- Gaius Musonius Rufus

"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

- Socrates

"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."

- Socrates

"O you who have believed, it is not lawful for you to inherit women by compulsion. And do not make difficulties for them in order to take [back] part of what you gave them unless they commit a clear immorality. And live with them in kindness. For if you dislike them – perhaps you dislike a thing and Allah makes therein much good."

- Quran

"O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah ], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful."

- Quran

"Do not kill the soul which Allah has made sacred except by right."

- Quran 6:151

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."

- Eleanor Roosevelt