Quotes about Morality
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
— William James
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
— William James
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
— Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
— Henry David Thoreau
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
— Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
— Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
— Henry Ford
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.
— Henry Ford
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher