Morality Quotes

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

- Thomas de Quincey

"Break down Sunday, close the churches, open the bars and the theatres on that day, and where would values be? What was real estate worth in Sodom?"

- Herman Lincoln Wayland

"There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equality will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride."

- Mary Wollstonecraft

"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."

- Carrie Chapman Catt

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning."

- Famous Bowling Alley Sign

"Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed."

- Aaron Neville

"Love All, Trust Few, Do Wrong to None."

- William Shakespeare

"Assuredly, Allah knows what they conceal and what they declare. Indeed, He does not like the arrogant."

- Quran

"Tell the believing men to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts. That is purer for them. Indeed, Allah is Acquainted with what they do."

- Quran

"Woe to those who give less [than due], Who, when they take a measure from people, take in full. But if they give by measure or by weight to them, they cause loss. Do they not think that they will be resurrected"

- Quran

"Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few."

- John Lewis

"There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury."

- Harriet Jacobs

"If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most!"

- James Baldwin

"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing."

- Marcus Aurelius

"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist."

- Angela Davis

"The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too."

- Stephen Covey

"Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been... ever, for any reason whatsoever..."

- Michael Scott

"Abraham Lincoln once said that, ‘If you’re a racist, I will attack you with the North.’ And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace."

- Michael Scott

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."

- Oscar Wilde

"Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy."

- Edward Heath

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

- Aeschylus

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."

- Abigail van Buren

"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

- Socrates

"My aim in life is not to judge"

- Jeanne Moreau

"We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor."

- Robert E. Lee

"The ultimate rule is to be kind and strong and make beautiful things."

- John Maeda

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

"It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice"