Quotes About Morality

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Virtue is its own reward.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.