Quotes About Morality

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

I would certainly spank my mom.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Social conscience is a fashion, it changes every year.

Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.

To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud through all her works) he must delight in virtue.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,The post of honor is a private station.

Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.