Quotes About Morality

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Of two evils, choose the less.

Of two evils, choose the prettier.

Where bad's the best, bad must be the choice.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.

We may draw good outof evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

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

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Of two evils choose the least.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

If any good results to a man from believing a lie, it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Angling is an innocent cruelty.