Morality Quotes

I planted myself upon the truth, and the truth only, so far as I knew it, or could be brought to know it.

I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; and therefore ... I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.