Quotes about morality
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Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Speech in Hartford, Connecticut (18 September 1952)
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Story of the DoorIn context
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn context
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn contextThe world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
It is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
There is one thing that every individual can do,—they can see to it that they feel right.
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
CSCharles William Stubbs“The Judgment of Conscience”, in Castles in the Air and Other Poems Old and New (London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1903), p. 6.I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Fireflies (1928), 25- Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1916)
And, because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“Oenone” (1832)
