Quotes About Morality

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

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.

You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success. That doesn't mean they take your morality and virtue seriously. They want what you want, and they're willing to do what you do to get it.