Quotes About Morality

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against the laws of nature.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

All bow to virtue — and then walk away.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Many consent to be virtuous, only on condition that everybody will give them credit for it.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

He who hates vice hates mankind.

Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

Virtue's the Paint that can make Wrinkles shine.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Have we no sins of our own to amend that we have all this time for barking and biting at the vices of our neighbours?... Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

The excess of virtue is a vice.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war and pillage...

Es fer war, I call it murder,— There you hev it, plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so, plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

Virgos cannot tolerate lying, cheating, fakeness, or ignorance.

A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Cain: Then my father's God did well When he prohibited the fatal tree. Lucifer: But had done better in not planting it. But ignorance of evil doth not save From evil: it must still roll on the same, A part of all things.

The difference between a bandit and a patriot is a good press agent.

HYGIENE. Bacteriology made moral...

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love is abortion.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.