Quotes about Morality

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The genius of the United States of America is Christian in the broadest sense, and its destiny is to remain Christian. This carries no sectarian meaning with it, but relates to a basic principle which differs from other principles in that it provides for liberty with morality, and pledges society to a code of relations based on fundamental Christian conceptions of human rights and duties.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how He can be so patient with the pious. —GEORGE MACDONALD