Quotes About Morality

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

To undo a Jew is charity, and not sin.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'