Quotes About Morality

And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.

There is no vanity so damaging to a man's character as pride over his good deeds!

E greu s?-?i imaginezi lumea f?r? un creator, dar prefer s? nu-mi închipui c? faptele oamenilor sunt inspirate de fiin?e supranaturale. Îmi place mai mult s? cred c? oamenii ?i-au inventat brutalitatea f?r? ajutor divin.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity to force him to become his vassal by withholding that relief God requires him to afford to the wants of his brother, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

And the devil will drag you under By the fancy tie 'round your wicked throat Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down Sit down you're rockin' the boat!

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking.

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Sex is all right, but a hot fudge sundae don't never ask if the baby's really his.

There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.