Quotes About Morality

Many persons have of late left off the use of West-India sugar on account of the iniquitous manner in which it is obtained. Those families who have done so, and have not substituted any thing else in its place, have not only cleansed their hands of blood, but have made a saving to their families, some of six pence, and some of a shilling a week. If this, or a part of this were appropriated to the uses before-mentioned, it would abundantly suffice

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

He who can deliberately inflict torture upon an animal, in order to heighten the pleasure his palate is to receive in eating it, is an abuser of the authority which God has given him, and is, indeed, a tyrant in his heart.

The law of nature bids a man not starve in the midst of plenty, and forbids his being punished for taking food wherever he can find it. Your law of nature is sitting at Westminster.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

An honest man, close-button'd to the chin,Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

I was sorry to read in yesterday's evening papers that your house was recently burglarised while you were elsewhere propounding the moral virtues of private enterprise. I'm sure you'll be able to see the funny side of it! I expect your mistake was to inform the robbery squad at your local police station that your house would be empty. That's always asking for trouble.

Only a shallow mind would be puzzled by the fact that Original Sin appears to be distributed so much more noticeably among the deprived...than among merchant bankers living in Surrey's green belt.

To sit a fine Christian gentleman down in close proximity to an unsavoury crowd of prostitutes was bad enough. Even worse was to allow him to be humiliated intellectually by the afore-mentioned rabble. (When you must have know perfectly well that it is not given to mere policemen, as it is to street-walkers, to think coherently on their feet).

I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate.

We have to keep asserting that people committ crimes not because they come from so-called deprived backgrounds, but because they're wicked. The statistics showing that only .00137% of all crimes of senseless violence are carried out by stockbrokers from Sunningdale prove only that folk are stockbrokers because they have a sense of right and wrong - not vice versa.

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.

Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?

No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.