Quotes About Morality

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Every man has his price.

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

Good, but not religious-good.