Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!
Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.
The government is ethics rape in perpetuity
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and s...
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
Sometimes we punish our selves the most.
But if the Bible is not everywhere literally true, which parts are divinely inspired and which are merely fallible and human? As soon as we admit that there are scriptural mistakes (or concessions to...
There is but one rule of conduct for a man: to do the right thing. The cost may be dear in money, in friends, in influence, in labor, in a prolonged and painful sacrifice; but the cost not to do right...
individuals are concerned notwith the moral issue of realizing these standards, but withthe amoral issue of engineering a convincing impression thatthese standards are being realized. Our activity, th...
Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves.But as far as we are concerned, that is the v...
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.
The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing
Everybody wants to be part of a success story, But no one want to be the writer of this story.
We do the right things at the wrong time because we think we are doing the right thing and the wrong things at the wrong times simply because we want to.
The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
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