Quotes About Morality

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I'm no good at it.

There's no such thing as good money or bad money.There's just money.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.