Quotes About Morality

Passion against Reason, Reason against Faith, Faith against the Devil, and my Conscience against all.

The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe

To be immoral, you must first subscribe to some conventional morality.... You cannot do wrong until you have first done right.

The great variety of moral qualities attributed to God by Scripture revolves particularly around two—holiness and love. These may be said in summary form to constitute the moral character of God

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth?

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

The ghostly consciousness of wrong.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...

Where thou findest a Lie that is oppressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist there only to be extinguished; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction.

What are you doing in God's fair Earth and Task-garden; where whosoever is not working is begging or stealing? Wo, wo to themselves and to all, if they can only answer: Collecting tithes, Preserving game!

Our 'superior morality' is properly rather an 'inferior criminality' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.