Quotes about Morality

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Many persons have of late left off the use of West-India sugar on account of the iniquitous manner in which it is obtained. Those families who have done so, and have not substituted any thing else in its place, have not only cleansed their hands of blood, but have made a saving to their families, some of six pence, and some of a shilling a week. If this, or a part of this were appropriated to the uses before-mentioned, it would abundantly suffice

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.