Quotes about Morality

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

We're always at war with good and evil in this world. No one escapes it. It's how we see it, how we recognize it that engages us in battle.

You don't have to have special skills to be a hero. You just have to do what's right, despite the cost.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

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

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

If a man preach the Golden Rule as a sound rule of conduct his words will fall upon deaf ears if he does not practice that which he preaches. The most effective sermon that any man can preach on the soundness of the Golden Rule is that which he preaches, by suggestion, when he applies this rule in his relationships with his fellow men.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.