Quotes About Morality

Money and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

[On slavery:] We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't

This is a Christian world, you know. We only kill things that are useful or things we don't like.

A guilty conscience, urged with the thought Of former evils, easily cannot err.

Integrity reveals beauty.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

all sentient beings capable of suffering should constitute a solidarity against suffering. Out of this solidarity, we should refrain from doing anything that could increase the overall amount of suffering and confusion in the universe.

What is got over the Devil's back (that's by knavery), is spent under the belly (that's by lechery).

Oh,Wert not gold and women, there would be no damnation

Tis time to die, when 'tis a shame to live.

Sex and religion are closer to each other that either might prefer.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.