Morality Quotes

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

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 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.

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.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed ... to live by the light that I have.

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.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

Let him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently to build one for himself

Let it be public, full, and fair. No cliqueism or cheatery about it.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is [in] his love of justice.

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

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