Quotes About Morality

Mark thomas: 'I am morally opposed to these weapons!' Columbian trade union activist: 'So I am but I find it very practical on occasion!

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

Be good and you will be lonely.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

You can't pray a lie.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath-day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.