Quotes About Morality

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

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

What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.

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 in the right.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

It is never wrong to do the right thing.

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.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

You can't pray a lie Huck Finn

When in doubt, tell the truth.