Quotes on Morality

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt.

Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

Health is the requisite after morality

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.