Quotes about Morality

before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.

Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class.

You can't drive a bayonet through a chap's body in cold blood, he remembered him saying. And you can't go in for an exam. without drinking, said Edward.

Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons.

We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Never… be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel.