Morality Quotes

This sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress everybody by his virtues. Disrespecting others means downfall of our own virtues. A person who disrespects others, in a way disrespect himself. A virtuous man does not disrespect his friend or vevn his enemy. Disrespect to enemy can investigate him toreact. The best thing is to destroy him completely. For a ruler this is very important.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modesty, and morality, for the world is full of the rarest gems.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

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.

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.

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.