Quotes about Morality

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.