Quotes About Morality

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.