Quotes about Morality

Be good and you will be lonely.

You can't pray a lie.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

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 excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

A nation that kills its own children has no future.