Quotes About Morality

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

We don't have to have easy moralizing reactions to characters in literature.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.

True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.

The soul must accept guilt in order to destroy existing evil, lest it incur the greater guilt of idyllic withdrawal, of seeming to be good by putting up with wrong.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

My point is, Justin, a hero tells the truth, no matter what people might think about him. And you've always done that. From day one.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

You can judge someone's character by what he does when no one's watching.

While money doesn't talk, it swears.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

about balancing capitalism with moral sentiment, especially over the distribution and use of profits for the good of mankind.

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.

The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.