Quotes about Morality

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.

People who do their duty are always finally rewarded.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,' I continued, 'if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Taking account of the value of externals, you see, comes at some cost to the value of one's own character.

As long as you honour material things, direct your anger at yourself rather than the thief or adulterer.

For determining the rational and the irrational, we employ not only our estimates of the value of external things, but also the criterion of that which is in keeping with one's own character.

And every animal is better or worse from his own merit (virtue) or his own badness. Is there then no virtue in man only? and must we look to the hair, and our clothes and to our ancestors?

you should not wait for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do your duty; but do good of your own accord.

Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.