Quotes About Morality

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Good, but not religious-good.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'...

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him