613 Quotes About Morals

Ask not what a politician can do for you, but what he/she can do in the general interest of the masses!

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

There is no such thing as a clever crook. If he was really that clever he wouldn’t be a crook at all.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

Evil is a convenient fiction.

In every family, culture, or religion, ideas of right and wrong are the hot cattle prods, the barking sheepdogs that keep the masses in the herd. They are the bars that keep us caged.I decided that if I kept doing the "right" thing, I would spend my life following someone else's directions instead of my own. I didn't want to live my life without living my life. I wanted to make my own decision as a free woman, from my soul.

I do not find human nature either wicked or good, I find it driven forward by the same inevitable laws as the tides and the constellations