Morality quotes and sayings

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

People are slow to believe that, which if believed would work them harm.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Integrity has no need of rules.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. if money is your ONLY hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

All doors open to courtesy.

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

To declare that "everybody is white" or "everybody is black" or "everybody is neither white nor black, but gray," is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

A fool and his money are soon elected.