Quotes about morality
501 quotes from 241 people
- ?UnattributedOften credited to Alexander Hamilton
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
?UnattributedOften credited to Alexis de Tocqueville- ?UnattributedAs repeated by Samuel Johnson in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (14 April 1775); an older proverb (George Herbert, 1640: “Hell is full of good meanings and wishings”)Often credited to Samuel Johnson
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 7 “Victory” (p. 165; epigram)There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)- Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
- Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Hocus Pocus (1990)
Earl Warren1891–1974Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City (11 November 1962)I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them.Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington1732–1799“Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation”, no. 57, in Jared Sparks, The Life of George Washington (London: Henry Colburn, 1839), Vol. II, p. 109.Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington1732–1799“Circular to the States” (8 June 1783)- George Washington1732–1799Letter to the Protestant Episcopal Church (19 August 1789) Scan at American Memory (Library of Congress).
- George Washington1732–1799Letter to his niece, Harriet Washington (30 October 1791)