Quotes About Morality

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.