Quotes About Morality

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death

Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior

There's no success in cheating people or bringing others down. Success is helping ourselves and others to become better.

Cheating is the most disrespectful thing one human being can do to another. If you aren't happy in a relationship, end it before starting another one.

Cheaters dont think cheating is wrong until they get cheated on.

Some people cheat their way through life. They cheat on tests in school. Cheat on girlfriends/boyfriends then graduate to cheating on wives/husbands. They cheat on taxes and many times shortchange their own kids. Life becomes one big game, but once YOU realized the game is rigged and let go, they lose...game over.

You could be close to perfect, you could pass all their tests, but a cheaters a cheater, and they always pass up the best.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When its so lucrative to cheat

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

If you know how to cheat, start now.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.