Quotes About Morality

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

A distinguishing taste of authentic Christians is their distaste for evil.

He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Hell is paved with good intention, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

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

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.