A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates


Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
- Mahatma Gandhi


I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson


I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mahatma Gandhi


I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
- Barack Obama
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
- Abraham Lincoln


Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
- George Washington


Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Morality is contraband in war.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson


The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain


The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- Aristotle


There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
- Ronald Reagan


Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Confucius