Quotes About Morality

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgement of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Whether the owners of this species of property [slavery] do really see it as it is, it is not for me to say, but if they do, they see it as it is through 2,000,000,000 of dollars, and that is a pretty thick coating.

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Sir, My concern is not weather God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.