Morality Quotes

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.