Quotes about Morality
The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas about honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree.
— William Faulkner
Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
— William Faulkner
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— William Faulkner
Which explains a lot, having likewise noticed in my time that the goddess in charge of virtue seems to be the same one in charge of luck, if not of folly also.
— William Faulkner
You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!
— William Golding
I must say that anyone who passed through those years [of World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
— William Golding
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
— William James
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
— William James
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
— Henry David Thoreau
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
— Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
— Henry David Thoreau