Morality Quotes

"If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before" "We cannot mistake absolutism for principle." "There is no sin except stupidity" "A man is morally free when, in an extant universe, he is capable of doing whatever he thinks is right, of thinking whatever he believes is true, and of feeling whatever he feels." "It is right to give every man his due" "Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good" "It has always seemed strange to me...the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness..." "I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one... humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil... there is no other story" "Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." "There is less harm in the crime itself than in the callousness, cruelty, and indifference of most people towards those who commit it." "A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good." "To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues." "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual" "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever" "Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important " "Sometimes what is right seems wrong, and what is wrong seems right" "Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives." "Wisdom is better than silver or gold." "True virtue must chiefly consist in love to God" "God is the highest good of the reasonable creature"